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• She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts and scatter these in places she thought no one would find them.

  Nicole Krauss

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• This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Smile, Confidence, Patience

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• Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Ideas, Connections, Breathe

  Alexandre Dumas (2013). “Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)”, p.3681, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Years, Gone, Next

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• And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Sports, Wall, Dark

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.930, Macmillan

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• ...the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

  Shalom Auslander

  Race, Hatred, World

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.40, Penguin

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• I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong. That's not totally true...I know I belong with Alex.

  Lauren Oliver

  Who I Am, People, Alex

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• If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

  Etgar Keret

  Want, Firsts, How To Be Happy

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• Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.

  Walker Percy

  Cities, Knows, Southerner

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.88, Open Road Media

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• There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hatred, My Love For You, Inability

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.187, Penguin

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• I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rags, Glad, Ifs

  "Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel".

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• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Mean, Dark

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• But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

  Stephen King

  Betrayal, Joy, Gone

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• Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

  Luke Davies

  Comfort, Heroin, Drained

  Luke Davies (2011). “Candy”, p.213, Random House

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• It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.

  Peter Straub

  Self, Skills, Despair

  FaceBook post by Peter Straub from Mar 02, 2014

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• I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

  David Levithan

  Beautiful, Clay, Porcelain

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.37, Egmont UK

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• She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, that strange happiness that was sometimes so big that it felt like sadness. It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Stars, Knowing, Way

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• No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

  John Green

  Anger, Reason, Angry

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.115, Penguin

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• Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Frightening, My Own

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Elude Us, Sight

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• She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

  David Levithan

  Ideas, Lost, Visible

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Crazy, Teaching

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• It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default—like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.

  Laini Taylor

  Expression, Way, Mask

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• I can't afford it' shut down your brain. it didn't have to think anymore. besides, it also brings up sadness. a helplessness that leads to despondency and often depression. 'How can I afford it?' opened up the brain. forced it to think and search fro answers. it also opens up possibilities, excitement and dreams and created a stronger mind and dynamic spirit.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dream, Thinking, Brain

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• All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Autumn, Meaning Something, Voice

  Gretel Ehrlich (1985). “The solace of open spaces”, Viking Pr

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