Sad Unmotivated Quotes & Sayings

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

The world is full of beautiful things but nevertheless very poor in beautiful moments and the opening-up of these things. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Me, a tease? I am not. I put out ... thank you very much.
- Jamie Killian — J.L. Langley

Electra Heart is the antithesis of everything I stand for. And the point of introducing her and building a concept around her is that she stands for the corrupt side of American ideology, and basically that's the corruption of yourself. My worst fear - that's anyone's worst fear - is to lose myself and become an empty person. And that happens a lot when you're very ambitious. — Marina And The Diamonds

I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives. — Gregory David Roberts

Michigan has a lot at stake in the defense industry, and the defense industry has a lot at stake in Michigan. — Sander Levin

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am. — Stuart Pearce

And the mist of snow, as he had foreseen, was still on it - a ghost of snow falling in the bright sunlight, softly and steadily floating and turning and pausing, soundlessly meeting the snow that covered, as with a transparent mirage, the bare bright cobbles. He loved it - he stood still and loved it. Its beauty was paralyzing - beyond all words, all experience, all dream. No fairy-story he had ever read could be compared with it - none had ever given him this extraordinary combination of ethereal loveliness with a something else, unnameable, which was just faintly and deliciously terrifying.
("Silent Snow, Secret Snow") — Conrad Aiken

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. — Thomas A. Edison

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No wine," she said. "It leads to cheese. — Lorrie Moore

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The fool worries, thinking, "I have sons, I have wealth." Indeed, when he himself is not his own, whence are sons, whence is wealth? — Gautama Buddha