“People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.” PeopleStillsPoliticalSadnessDyingWasteResponseRateHivInfection Author:Elton John
“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?” YearsFatherParentSadnessChildhoodLonelinessWasteRageInjurySurvivorReignWrecksParents Marriage Book:Great House: A Novel Source: Great House: A Novel
“A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.” IfsSpaceSadnessWasteMiseryFollyScopeWaste Of Space Author:Thomas Carlyle
“IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not accept the universe in a very whole-hearted manner. Looking up at the midnight stars, he exclaimed: "A sad spectacle! If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be not inhabited, what a waste of space!"” IfsSaidWholeScienceUniverseStarsSpaceAcceptingSadnessWasteMiseryAcceptedFollyMidnightScopeHeartedWaste Of Space Book:Accepting the universe Source: Accepting the universe
“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.” FeelsWritingMomentsPainLostCitiesSadnessExampleBuildingPaintingWasteDecadesRemedyBuilding Up Author:Umberto Eco
“You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.” PainStudySadnessStreetsPrayingLoversWasteSummerRainCrossesRoseVainSaviorThese Streets Author:Bruce Springsteen