“Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.”
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Sad Quotes — page 88 of 475
“We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.”
“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”
“Heaven has no taste." "Now-" "And not one single sushi restaurant." A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.”
“Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.”
“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.”
“The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.”
“Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.”
“When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that's what I think it did to me.”
“All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.”
“The people made me from the littlest crack head to the biggest baller so if i am bad its because of the bay and if i am good its because of the bay”
“I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.”
“If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.”
“I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.”
“Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.”
“Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.”
“Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.”
“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
“I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.”
“The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.”