Sad German Quotes

#1. I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

F. Sionil Jose

#2. The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

Trent Reznor

#3. Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock

#4. The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.

Plutarch

#5. Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

John Keats

#6. Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university career, among other sad reasons because he dreamed of being a writer.

Roberto Bolano

#7. When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elliott Carter

#8. If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

Eddie Izzard

#9. Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.

Tom Robbins

#10. Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Samuel Johnson