“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.”
Queer: A Novel (1985)
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a… 1914–1997Related quotes
Ernest Renan (1823–1892) French philosopher and writer
Source: Vie de Jésus (The Life of Jesus) (1863), Ch. 5.
“Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.”
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
Letter to Lafayette (1821) https://books.google.com/books?id=Elh0sAhIVvAC&pg=PA85&dq=%22SAD+BLOT+ON+OUR+FREE+COUNTRY%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMI47DWxfTQxwIVRFQ-Ch2fvwWA#v=onepage&q=%22SAD%20BLOT%20ON%20OUR%20FREE%20COUNTRY%22&f=false <br class="br">1820s
“You only are free when you realize you belong no place — you belong every place — no place at all.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Source: Conversations with Maya Angelou
Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934) Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and president of Germany
Remark (November 1914), Paul Dehn, Hindenburg, als Erzieher (1918), p. 12, quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1941), p. 74
Supreme Commander of All German Forces in the East
“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) German composer and pianist
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
