#sad

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. ↗

— Elton John

#dying #going #hiv #infection #people

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#arrived #capital #contrive #could #despair

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#makes #man #mistake #thoughts #wine

I didn't really want to live, so anything that was an investment in time made me angry... but also I just felt sad. When the hopelessness is hurting you, it's the fixtures and fittings that finish you off. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#angry #anything #felt #finish #hopelessness

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #better #came #conditions #disadvantage

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #between #criticizing #enormous #gap

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#chiefs #fight #forever #hear #heart

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. ↗

— Helen Keller

#among #breeze #flowers #i #just

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#learn #management #new #now #saddam