311 Quotes About Sad-but-true

... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

Hanya karena lo mencintai seseorang dengan sepenuh hati, bukan berarti orang itu akan membalas dengan cinta yang sama besarnya.

I have been told the best things in life are free ~ I found them very expensive.

But that's the way life goes most of the time: the thing you least count on comes along and ruins everything else you got planned.

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

Someday, even my existence would be felt.

When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you undestand the lyrics.

But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze," as Chinese connoisseurs of women traditionally put it. The sight of a woman teetering on bound feet was supposed to have an erotic effect on men, partly because her vulnerability induced a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker.

It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.