Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Sad Quotes

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

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Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

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Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

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He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

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Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.

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The life of woman is full of woe, Toiling on and on and on, With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, The secret longings that arise, Which this world never satisfies! Some more, some less, but of the whole Not one quite happy, no, not one!

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Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

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You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

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You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

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For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

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My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief, Are mine alone!

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