what is the most sorrowful or sad sentence you have read or heard?
thanks
2006-12-09 22:42:28 · 27 answers · asked by zoe 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Father why hast thou forsaken me"
Anything about loved ones having cancer
And finally, a short story (it has six words) by Ernest Hemingway:
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2006-12-10 05:11:32 · answer #1 · answered by NvadrApple ♫ 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"I listen to money singing. It's like looking down
From long French windows at a provincial town,
The slums, the canal, the church ornate and mad
In the evening sun. It is intensely sad."
- Philip Larkin
I'm not sure if it's the most, but it just popped into my head.
2006-12-10 12:32:49 · answer #2 · answered by probablestars 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Sydney Carton says the following before he is killed by the terror of the French Revolution. He sacrifices his life by trading places with another man who looks like him - the husband of the woman he loves.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known."
2006-12-10 09:03:11 · answer #3 · answered by happy inside 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yesterday a drop of sperm ... tomorrow a handfull of ashes ! and the transition is what we call life.
Many years from now not even the dust of our ashes will remain and still we run after identity & power... we are so alone in this universe and that stretches my imagination to the limit and fills my heart with unknown sadness... but I enjoy this sadness and grief.
2006-12-10 07:52:44 · answer #4 · answered by mesalcut 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mission Accomplished- GW Bush
2006-12-10 06:45:46 · answer #5 · answered by I.M. Puffin' Stuff~ 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
At the moment, the only one I can remember is this:
"It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary."
(That's Marlowe talking about death, in The Heart of Darkness.)
2006-12-10 15:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by Multi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stalking is a crime.
(it is the way of the cat, and in Chinese astrology I am a tiger. The only alternative is sitting under a tree and waiting . ..but that never works . . .)
2006-12-10 07:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by isis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"Mother, the holidays have come", the last sentence spoken by the central character in a short story by Rabindranath Tagore(Nobel winner for Literature from India), a young boy Phatik, he is ill and when her mother comes to see her, he dies in the arms of her mother after waiting for months to meet her.
2006-12-10 06:49:39 · answer #8 · answered by chandan 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It's from Romeo and Juliet (II, i) by William Shakespeare:
Juliet.
...
Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
2006-12-10 07:36:22 · answer #9 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last line from Chapter 21 in "Charlotte's Web": No one was with her when she died.
2006-12-10 09:00:16 · answer #10 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋