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The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.Collection: Sad
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.Collection: Sad
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.Collection: Sad
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.Collection: Sad
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?Collection: Sad
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.Collection: Sad
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.Collection: Sad
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.Collection: Sad
The sadness will last forever.Collection: Sad
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.Collection: Sad
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.Collection: Sad
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.Collection: Sad
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.Collection: Sad
A lot of you cared, just not enough.Collection: Sad
To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.Collection: Sad
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.Collection: Sad
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.Collection: Sad
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.Collection: Sad
Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.Collection: Sad
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.Collection: Sad
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds ridiculous, if he unhesitatingly gives answers to questionnaires which are contrary to his real opinions and is prepared to deny his own self in public, if he sees no difficulty in feigning sympathy or even affection where, in fact, he feels only indifference or aversion, it still does not mean that he has entirely lost the use of one of the basic human senses, namely, the sense of humiliation.Collection: Sad
If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.Collection: Sad
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.Collection: Sad
'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.Collection: Sad
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.Collection: Sad
Those who do not weep, do not see.Collection: Sad
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.Collection: Sad
I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.Collection: Sad
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?Collection: Sad
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.Collection: Sad
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.Collection: Sad
When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.Collection: Sad
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.Collection: Sad
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.Collection: Sad
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.Collection: Sad
Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.Collection: Sad
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help himCollection: Sad
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.Collection: Sad
Every man has his secret sorrows.Collection: Sad
There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.Collection: Sad
Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!Collection: Sad
O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!Collection: Sad
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.Collection: Sad
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.Collection: Sad
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.Collection: Sad
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!Collection: Sad
Hold on...Hold on to yourself. This is going to hurt like hell.Collection: Sad