Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.

Aaron Swartz

What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.

Charlotte Bronte

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlie Chaplin

What a sad business is being funny!

Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Charles Dickens

Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

Charles Caleb Colton

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Suzy Menkes

There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.

Charlotte Bronte

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

David R. Ellis

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Cher

Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

Charlaine Harris

The sweetest part of being a couple is sharing your life with someone else. But my life, evidently, had not been good enough to share.

Billy Ray Cyrus

I'm so miserable without you, it's almost as if you're here!

Chaim Potok

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

Ashlee Simpson

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

Ben Harper

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

John Putnam

The reality is, J&J probably doesn't care, ... It has the money to pay whatever breakup fee is involved. I don't see somebody else walking in here and picking up Guidant.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

Catherine Helen Spence

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

Bette Midler

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

Alanis Morissette

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

Chelsea Handler

Hulk Hogan's wife has filed for divorce. This is the most devastating breakup since Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Pam Anderson and Kid Rock. And soon, Pam Anderson and Rick Salomon.

Beyonce Knowles

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

Elizabeth Bishop

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.