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• Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and it's sad. I'm happy with the way the novel came out but all the characters' ending really saddened me.

  Yiyun Li

  Children, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

  Alyssa Milano

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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• I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Oil, Iraq

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.644, Penguin UK

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• Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

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• [A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

  Tracy Hickman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Views, Cynic, Mankind

  Sharon Kay Penman (2010). “When Christ and His Saints Slept”, p.89, Macmillan

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• I'm often saddened and dismayed to see myself portrayed as either a Luddite or as a raving technophile. I've always thought that my job was to be as anthropologically neutral about emerging technologies as possible.

  William Gibson

  Jobs, Technology, Emerging

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 22, 2007.

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• I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man.

  Annette Funicello

  Believe, Caring, Men

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• That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Want, Moments

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  Walter Annenberg

  Tape, Heard, Shocked

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• When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Ideas, Musician

  "Visions: Maya Angelou". Interview With Ken Kelley, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1995.

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• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  Jack Adams

  Couple, Chicago, Yards

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• Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope...I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony." Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. "Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul." Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. "Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive.

  J.R. Ward

  Believe, Heart, Feet

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.2857, Penguin

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• None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges — and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to learn and grow from such events in our lives. We know that there are times when we will suffer, when we will grieve, and when we will be saddened. However, we are told, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.” How might we have joy in our lives, despite all that we may face? Again from the scriptures: “Wherefore, be of good cheer, and do not fear, for I the Lord am with you, and will stand by you."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cheer, Men, Grieving

  "Be of Good Cheer". Talk by Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. April 2009.

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• I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

  George Sand

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• Like everyone, I'm saddened and horrified by this. All I'll say is that I'm personally trying to pay more attention to the victims than to their murderer. I certainly will not be mentioning the murderer. I don't think he warrants our attention-particularly since he so clearly wanted it.

  John Green

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

  Abraham Maslow

  Running, Motivation, Self

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

  D. J. MacHale

  Dark, People, Greed

  D.J. MacHale (2002). “The Merchant of Death”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• Jared glared. Some people, Kami knew, had bedroom eyes. She was saddened to have to admit that Jared had filthy alleyway eyes.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, People, Bedroom

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

  Joseph Heller

  Stars, Night, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Sadness, Sleep

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• Were all first loves like that? Somehow she doubted it; even now it struck her as being more real than anything she'd ever known. Sometimes it saddened her to think that she'd never experience that kind of feeling again, but then life had a way of stamping out that intensity of passion; she'd learned all too well that love wasn't always enough.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Passion, First Love

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• And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, World, Stills

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• I am deeply saddened and shocked at the loss of umpire Wally Bell.

  Joe Torre

  Loss, Umpires, Bells

  "Wally Bell Dead: Major League Baseball Umpire Dies At 48". hollywoodlife.com. October 15, 2013.

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