Inconsolably Sad Quotes & Sayings

The country was lumbering towards election day. Strike turned in early on Sunday and watched the day's gaffes, counterclaims and promises being tabulated on his portable TV. There was an air of joylessness in every news report he watched. The national debt was so huge that it was diffcult to comprehend. Cuts were coming, whoever won; deep, painful cuts; and sometimes, with their weasel words, the party leaders reminded Strike of the surgeons who had told him cautiously that he might experience a degree of discomfort; they who would never personally feel the pain that was about to be inflicted. — Robert Galbraith

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. — Baha'u'llah

To treat fiction as if it were a religious or moral sermon is about as far from the actuality of literature as it is possible to get and indeed it is, in my opinion, the purest form of intellectual barbarism. — Edward W. Said

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt

So much in life is about almosts, not quites. — Alice Sebold

Success is not granted to the talented, rather it is reserved for the doggedly tenacious. — W. Michael Gear

The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled. — Sue Monk Kidd

The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq. — Kent Conrad

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There's only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love. — J.C. Lillis

You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun. — J.R. Rim