“The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.”
Sad feeling
Sad Quotes — page 93 of 475
“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.”
“A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar.”
“A woman who writes feels too much.”
“... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.”
“It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.”
“When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.”
“[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.”
“Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.”
“Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.”
“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”
“The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.”
“My father died and left me his blessing and his business. His blessing brought no money into my pocket, and as to his business, it soon deserted me, for I was busy writing poetry, and could not attend to law, and my clients, though they had great respect for my talents, had no faith in a poetical attorney.”
“How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?”
“How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!”
“The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.”
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
“Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.”
“Everyone has sadness-I just get mine out in my music so that I can laugh and joke and flirt with you!”
“Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.”