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You broke a man today. Doesn't that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.'
'You're wrong. We are on my uncle's board and these men are all his pieces.'
'Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are.
That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.
One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.
Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.
Sometimes, the smallest moments in your life have the greatest impact. They soar straight into a place deep inside you, and resonate with the very core of your heart, sinking deep into your memory, to remind you later, that life and love can bring you magic you didn't know existed.
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
Words are very powerful.
The moment is timeless.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
What silly little things sometimes take on meaning in life, suddenly, out of nowhere. And you know they're little nothings, and you laugh at them, but all the same, you go on feeling them, you can't stop ...
It must be sad to outlive aught we love.
Sad, that lives can be shattered, into so many pieces that they can never be put back together, the the relentless force of love. Irreparable.
There are moments of life that we never forget, which brighten and brighten as time steals away.
One's course in life often pivots on small incidents.
That which is painful sharpens one's love.
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
Our path through life is strewn with many such sad memories: and were we to brood upon them always we could not find the heart to go on bravely with our work among the living ... therefore, I will not linger on the past. I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude ...
I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.
I find poignancy in the moments when a person realizes that she has made mistakes. I am not as interested in the mistakes themselves as I am with the consequences and how the person responds to her realization.
Little things affect little minds.
Our very lives are a sum of moments.
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.
Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.
A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.
I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.
We always remember best the irrelevant.
Life's biggest moments are small moments.
Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
Another thought hits me hard as a lawn dart to the eye: this moment is so terribly unimportant to the rest of the world, yet it means everything to me somehow - and it's enough.
So I sign and I sign and I sign.
It's almost beautiful, your sadness.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
Small things change a life. Change lives.
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
What we call a brilliant thought is usually just a captivating expression which, with the help of a little truth, imposes a surprising error on us.
Matters of the heart are so incalculable!
One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.
What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.
I will carry a mark on my heart for the rest of my life.
Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.
Strange how few, After alls said and done, the things that are Of moment.
One moment, one short moment - and forever sorrow.
It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.
Words can crush things that are unseen.
The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.
Think of something clever, witty or profound, keep it short and people may quote you.
People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation is worth more than a thousand pictures.
There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.
Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.
Lives are short, but knowledge is eternal.
The world is nothing but a moment.
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
And it made me hurt inside of my bones with sadness. Because in a life that is long and well lived there are sorrows and darkest doldrums that cannot be understood by those who live day to day like it could be any other.
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
Small things done with great love will change the world.
The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.
It's only pain which leads us to achieve something special.
He who lives happiest has forgotten most
Life is painful to be meaningful.
How impossible it is to forget the stories we tell ourselves, even when the truth should super-cede them.
Knowledge isn't always powerful. Sometimes it's just heart-breaking.
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
We are not made for brilliant moments, but we have to walk in the light of them in ordinary ways.
A single act is worth a thousand thoughts
Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.
Nothing so precious as memory, nothing so useless.
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.
This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Actions are more precious than words
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
Words do inspire.
Life is full of lessons we either learn from or get bitter over.
Being courageous is less painful than being unhappy
A moment is not complete until you realise it is fleeting...
We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.
For people who must live from day to day, past and future have small relevance, and their grasp of it is fleeting; they live in the moment, a very precious gift that we have lost.
Some truths are seen better through tears.
Facts are lonely things