There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall 
It is sad but unfortunately true that
man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung
A relationship, I think, is like a shark.
You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall (1977)
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do you feel stuck?
Whether in a project, a job, a relationship,
or some other situation,
there is a time for perseverance,
and a time for letting go and moving on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
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
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I seldom think about my limitations,
and they never make me sad.
Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;
but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.
- Helen Keller
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
The world is a mirror for anger,
which returns to its source as burning torment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
The moral arc of the universe
bends at the elbow of justice.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins
No regrets.
- Anonymous
The most terrible poverty is loneliness
and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa
When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Is That All There Is?
- Peggy Lee
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side
which he never shows to anybody.
- Mark Twain
It hurts to love someone
and not be loved in return,
but what is more painful is to love
someone and never find the courage
to let that person know how you feel.
- Anonymous
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
Stress is always waiting
just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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