"I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them."

-- Marie Antoinette

#Ideas Quotes #Forever Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.”
“When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.”

Source : Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber
“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.”

Source : "The Life and Legend of Jay Gould". Book by Maury Klein, 1986.
“A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.”
“Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.”

Source : "No Pressure to Quit Insists Schumacher". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 13, 2006.
“Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.”
“Happiness is like water. Weâ€™re always trying to grab onto it, but itâ€™s always slipping between our fingers”
“I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 85 'Quotes', 1990.

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