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• She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Soothing

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• I've never wanted to be loved. And God Knows no one's done it yet.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Done, God Knows, Wanted To Be Loved

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.275, Macmillan

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• He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")

  Ray Bradbury

  Spring, Autumn, Grandmother

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Oct 01, 2015

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• Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Party, Dark

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.154, Penguin

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• Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Discovery, Joy

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• What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

  William Shakespeare

  Romeo And Juliet Love, Hours, Romeo Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.20, Classic Books Company

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• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Memories, Childhood, Unhappy

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, H. P. Lovecraft

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• She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Sena Jeter Naslund (2009). “Four Spirits: A Novel”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.

  Shan Sa

  Regret, Lying, Hair

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• A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river                     but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away                                                                         but then he’s still left with his hands.

  Richard Siken

  Men, Hands, Rivers

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• When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

  Kingsley Amis

  Jobs, Hangover, Self

  "Distilled Kingsley: The late, great author - and prodigious drinker - gives his advice on beating a hangover" by Kingsley Amis, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 26, 2008.

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• The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.

  Daniel Handler

  World, Way, Riddle

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• When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

  Ruth Reichl

  Deserve More, Ends, Persons

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• About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Falling In Love, Two, Differences

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• There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Way, Empty

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.162, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• ...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

  Evelyn Waugh

  Forever, Looks, Purpose

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Letting Go, Falling In Love, Mean

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.19, Penguin

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• Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Cities, Shining

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• Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Men, Race

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.549, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Profound, Intuition

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• He wondered what the years had done to his face as he traced the effects on hers. Eyes the same blue-lit green, but where mischievous joy once danced, now he saw sadness, deep as the ocean. Her cheeks were thinner. There was something else too: the arrogant pride of a princess seemed to be extinct. Yet the indefinable, untamed quality of her spirit remained. Yes, it was Torina.

  Victoria Hanley

  Ocean, Princess, Eye

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• Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

  Paulo Coelho

  Forever, Doe, Lasts

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• The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.

  Paulo Coelho

  Religious, Religion, Mountain

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• There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Morning, Pain, Broken

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.158, Macmillan

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• But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks it exists And the hand pick flowers And the soul takes no notice.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Flower, Thinking, Hands

  Fernando Pessoa, Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown (1998). “Poems of Fernando Pessoa”, p.9, City Lights Books

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