Sad Sayings (4)
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous
In time we hate that which we often fear.
- William Shakespeare
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He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
- Bono
The road to perdition has ever been
accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
- Albert Einstein
There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bread.
- Mother Teresa
The course of true love never did run smooth.
- William Shakespeare
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
The healthy man does not torture others -
generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Jung
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,
you feel a loss of energy, a loss of power,
a sense of spiritual deadness.
- Shakti Gawain
A big part of letting go is recognizing
when it is time to stay in a situation
and when it is time to move on.
- Darren L. Johnson
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't.
So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
- Jewel
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
do be my enemy - for friendship's sake.
- William Blake
In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust
You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous
I am but a grain of sand on the beach of life.
My footprints in the sands of time soon wash away.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart,
but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
- Kay Knudsen
Let my soul smile through my heart
and my heart smile through my eyes,
that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear
to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
- Sylvester Stallone
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
There was a time when a man was so convinced
that the world was round
that he was determined to prove it.
- Ernest Holmes
There are people in the world so hungry,
that God cannot appear to them
except in the form of bread.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Falling out of love is very enlightening.
For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
- Iris Murdoch
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are afraid to care too much, for fear
that the other person does not care at all.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo
In case you failed to notice,
in case you failed to see,
this is my heart,
bleeding before you,
this is me down on my knees.
- Jewel
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Cry for the souls of the angry,
for they sleep the troubled sleep of the damned.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
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