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• When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.

  Rajneesh

  Cutting, Roots, Differences

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• There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

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• I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sad, Fun, Humorous

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “My Life and Times”, p.14, Read Books Ltd

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• Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sad, Knives, Orlando

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

  Stephen Levine

  Grief, Healing, Profound

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.92, Anchor

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• the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

  Edgar Degas

  Art, Littles, Mood

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• It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Rejects You, Rejection

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.17, Random House

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• To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Yield, Sorrow

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• My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophy, Believe, Men

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• Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Sad, Beautiful, Song

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Nature, Real

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

  Wayne Coyne

  Comfort, Share, Metaphysical

  "Straight from the Lip". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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  The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

  Bob Marley

  Life, Sad, Deep Thought

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Depression, Death, Pain

  "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  William Blake

  Sympathy, Peace, Grief

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'On Another's Sorrow'

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• I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Believe, Appreciate, Feeling Sad

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• Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspiring, Sad, Death

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.232, Open Road Media

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• One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Depression, Overwhelmed, Oneself

  Jackie Kennedy's remarks after President Kennedy's assassination, 1963.

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• Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

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• And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Sad, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

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