really sad love quotes that make you cry

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. ~Aldous Huxley


The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. ~Ruth Gendler


War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at. ~William Cowper


If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Skipping arm in arm is double the joy! ~Jessi Lane Adams


Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~A.A. Milne


Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth


There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules. ~Paul Eldridge


A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. ~Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971


If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 17


We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~Kurt Vonnegut


It frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. ~Groucho Marx


Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002


An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won't let him do it at home. ~Author Unknown


I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with. ~Gene Perret


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. ~Richard Halliburton


The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ~Bill Vaughn


Drawing is putting a line round an idea. ~Henri Matisse