For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
To love. To be loved.
To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence
and the vulgar disparity of life around you.
To seek joy in the saddest places.
To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never simplify what is complicated
or complicate what is simple.
To respect strength, never power.
Above all, to watch. To try to understand.
To never look away. And never, never, to forget.
- Arundhati Roy
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 to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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)
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
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
Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- 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
True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
- Alexander Pope
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
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
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein
One's first love is always perfect
until one meets one's second love.
- Elizabeth Aston
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
A true friend is one who
overlooks your failures
and tolerates your success.
- Doug Larson
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
A moment without joy is an eternity of sadness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is nothing more depressing,
than having everything,
and still feeling sad.
- Janet Jackson
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
"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
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
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
- Robert Browning
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's
most effective criticism until you provoke him.
Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
- Henry David Thoreau
The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
We take refuge in pride,
because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves.
- Kakuzo Okakura
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
Struggle is highly overrated.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
There was a time when a man was so convinced
that the world was round
that he was determined to prove it.
- Ernest Holmes
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of,
he always declares that it's his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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