Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Viet Thanh Nguyen
Some Similar Quotes
  1. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now - Unknown

  3. Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. - Clive Barker

  4. Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. - Pablo Neruda

  5. Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Unknown

More Quotes By Viet Thanh Nguyen
  1. As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to participate in history could escape. The major had the right to live, and I was right to kill him. Wasn't I?

  2. I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

  3. This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

  4. No one asks poor people if they want war.

  5. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

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