sad quotes about life and love

If I find a film dull, I find it infinitely more entertaining to watch the scratches. ~Norman McLaren If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes



We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. ~Albert Szent-Gyorgyi



Man is nature's sole mistake. ~W.S. Gilbert



Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. ~Philip Henry



Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal



There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. ~Judith Hayes, In God We Trust: But Which One?



Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit. ~Lemony Snicket



In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. ~Hugh Walpole



No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ~Henry Adams



Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. ~Carl G. Jung



Almost overnight, the Internet's gone from a technical wonder to a business must. ~Bill Schrader



Curlers rock and roll! ~Saying of the sport



I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink. ~George Jean Nathan



Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. ~Agnes Repplier, Points of View, 1891



Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. ~Stanislaw Lec



A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb



War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. ~John F. Kennedy



Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~Calvin Coolidge, 1927



The sun is the epitome of benevolence - it is lifegiving and warmthgiving and happinessgiving, and to it we owe our thanksgiving. ~Jessi Lane Adams