... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
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... the more one needs God the more perfect he is. To need God is nothing to be ashamed of but is perfection itself. It is the saddest thing in the world if a human being goes through life without discovering that he needs God!
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the sacrifice, often willingly, and they are still waiting for the blessing.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - Street Spirit has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end.
The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.
A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction of democracy and which meanwhile can benefit only a minority of the masses who support it. Yet it is this support from the Left of the tendencies toward monopoly which make them so irresistible and the prospects of the future so dark.
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
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