quotes about sadness

People have become as processed as food. ~Astrid Alauda



God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" ~William A. Ward



History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. ~Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard



When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown, from a television commercial



You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun. ~Antonio Porchia



The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much. ~Germain G. Glien



Housework, if it is done right, can kill you. ~John Skow



A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul. ~Plato



Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. ~Jonathan Swift



One does evil enough when one does nothing good. ~German Proverb



My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one. ~Bob Hope



Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome. ~William Ewart Gladstone



Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. ~Marcel Proust



I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou



Despair is anger with no place to go. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. ~Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969



Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford



Ah me! why may not love and life be one? ~Henry Timrod



A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. ~Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967