Sad

Famous quotes containing the word sad:

“No state can build
A literature that shall at once be sound
And sad on a foundation of well-being.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“... the sad increase
Across the mind of this prolific plant,
Dumb idleness?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words.... The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)