“It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.”
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Sad Quotes — page 8 of 475
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.”
“Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.”
“The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.”
“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.”
“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
“I made a lot of mistakes, a lot of things I'm not proud of. But it's only for other people to learn from.”
“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”
“The course of true love never did run smooth.”
“Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.”
“There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.”
“If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid”
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
“Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.”
“Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.”
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”
“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.”
“It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.”
“We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.”