"Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad."

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Source : Linda Lael Miller (2011). “Creed's Honor”, p.199, HQN Books

Linda Lael Miller

#Sadness Quotes #People Quotes #Being Sad Quotes

“Science promised man power. But, as so often happens when people are seduced by promises of power, the price is servitude and impotence. Power is nothing if it is not the power to choose.”
“I would hate for someone to look at my shoe and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!' That's not what I want to project. But I'm not a sadist. I don't believe suffering makes you beautiful. But comfort is not part of my creative process.”
“And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.”
“Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.”

Source : "The White Goddess".
“You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.”
“There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.”
“All too often, schools resemble museums, reflecting the past rather than shaping the future”

Source : Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.509, Vintage
“Something magical happened when I turned 25 - I looked in the mirror and was like, 'You might not get carded for an R-rated movie anymore.' Like I didn't have a little stick figure anymore.”

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