“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”
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Sad Quotes — page 9 of 475
“Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with these dual barriers, have often found that sex bias is more formidable than racial bias.”
“The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.”
“Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.”
“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”
“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.”
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--”
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
“Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you up by saying lightly, "I suppose you get used to it, and ignore it." You try. You try damned hard. But you never get used to it. It always wounds and hurts.”
“We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...”
“I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it”
“Sanity is a cozy lie.”
“I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.”
“It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“This is Manchester, we do things differently here.”
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
“In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.”
“There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”