“The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.”
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Sad Quotes — page 83 of 475
“When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the external world more difficult.”
“Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.”
“It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.”
“Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?”
“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.”
“Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.”
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
“There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.”
“Beauty is a frail good.”
“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
“One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.”
“While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
“If you have not suffered hunger, you do not appreciate having something to eat. If you have not gone through a war, you don't know the value of peace. That is why we should not try to run away from one thing after another thing. Holding our suffering, looking deeply into it, we find a way to happiness.”
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
“Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.”
“The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.”
“In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.”
“And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.”