“A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.”
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Sad Quotes — page 97 of 475
“Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.”
“We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.”
“Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.”
“A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save.”
“The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.”
“My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.”
“To a good man nothing that happens is evil.”
“Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.”
“Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.”
“I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'”
“The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away.”
“I find the worst audition is the no audition.”
“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.”
“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”
“Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
“Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.”
“Seafood was always my favorite food. I mean, fried lobster? Come on. Once I found out shrimp, scallops and lobster were my allergic triggers, I had to change my diet.”
“No one thinks of how much blood it costs.”