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• There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

  Estelle Parsons

  Acting, Actors, Used

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• No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

  Estelle

  Breakup

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• But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Ambition, Night

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.25, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Gratitude, Heart, Profound

  Pope Benedict XVI (2007). “John Paul II: My Beloved Predecessor”

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• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Twilight, Heart

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• 'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Solitude, Guests, Nightmare

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.522, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, Sullen, Warning

  Sonnet 71

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• Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Love, Life, Missing Someone

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• The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Unhappy, Usual, Pretext

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• What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Cute, Dream

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• For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Public Opinion, Politics, Aliens

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Roots, Evil, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.120

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• I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

  Jewel

  Fall, Bad Day, Feelings

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• The life of woman is full of woe,
  Toiling on and on and on,
  With breaking heart, and tearful eyes,
  The secret longings that arise,
  Which this world never satisfies!
  Some more, some less, but of the whole
  Not one quite happy, no, not one!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Women, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.156

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• Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teacher, Appreciation, Children

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Depressing, Morning, Real

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

  Margery Allingham

  Dust, Ties, Mourning

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• Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
  In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
  That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
  And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
  What matters one lost vision of the night?
  Let the dream go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Beautiful, Dream, Night

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.391, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.

  Sylvia Plath

  Breakup, Flower, Lunch

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• May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

  Robertson Davies

  Depression, Writing, Suggestions

  Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart

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• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  Ric Ocasek

  Love, Happiness, Drama

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• I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

  Taylor Swift

  Breakup, Thinking, Sometimes

  "Taylor Swift Tapes VH1 'Storytellers,' Lifts Curtain on New Songs from 'Red'" by Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 17, 2012.

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• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  Ismail Merchant

  Giving Up, Never Give Up On Love, Longing

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Despair, Apathy

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Loneliness, House, Tears

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.96, Cooper Square Press

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