sad heartbroken poems

If you have a lane, you have a chance. ~Author Unknown



Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. ~Edward Abbey



Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. ~Franklin P. Jones



The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance. ~John Allan Dalrymple Anderson



Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov



The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. ~Pamela Hansford Johnson



Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way. You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want. ~Marni Jackson



Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded. ~William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823



The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab



Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. ~Ben Hecht, Miracle of the Fifteen Murderers



A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost



It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them. ~Charles Dickens



Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend. ~Zenna Scha



If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. ~Dorothy Canfield Fisher



If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ~Earl Wilson



If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola. ~From Strangers with Candy



In some cases nonviolence requires more militancy than violence. ~Cesar Chavez



You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world. ~Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden, "The Mission," Chapter 8



No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers. ~Author Unknown



Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com