Sad Old Man Quotes

#1. My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Poppy Z. Brite

#2. Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal.

Irvine Welsh

#3. It's sad to say, but as much as I cared for the Old Man, and worried about him, I was glad not to have to live with him. I just left him to himself and never looked back.

Barack Obama

#4. It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

Charles A. Beard

#5. Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

William James

#6. Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

Mallory Jansen

#7. There were
things, he said mournfully, that perhaps could never be told, only he
had lived so much alone that sometimes he forgot
he forgot. The light
had destroyed the assurance which had inspired him in the distant
shadows.

Joseph Conrad

#8. I only know that I can't live without flight. Without sky and moist, breathing earth.

Sophie Jordan

#9. Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.

Michael Bedard

#10. And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate ... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

Anne Holm

#11. THE OLD LAB was not used for anything much except detention. But there was still a faint smell of old science clinging to it, from generations of experiments which had gone wrong.

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.

Tim Zuck

#13. Lesson for the day, kids: hangovers are real, and they are the opposite of fun.

Jeff Sampson

#14. There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.

Jose Saramago

#15. We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.

John Green

#16. God created you to be in the world.
You are in the world to fulfil a specific mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. It is sad to see a young man's fondest hopes and dreams shattered when the rose-colured veil is plucked away and he sees the actions and feelings of men for what they are. But he still has the hope of replacing his old illusions with others, just as fleeting, but also just as sweet.

Mikhail Lermontov