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She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld ...

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...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

I am tired of days that are all the same.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and wa...

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touc...

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Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

From the bonny bells of heather,They brewed a drink long syne,Was sweeter far than honey,Was stronge...

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Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fest...

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How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but kn...

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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....

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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they coul...

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Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

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Sarah DessenThe Moon and More

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop the...

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Sarah DessenThis Lullaby

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change arou...

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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad...

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I d...

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I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think tha...

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I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force any...

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This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...

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And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind,...

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

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But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows ope...

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My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

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Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...

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Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...

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If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting w...

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more...

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No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's fu...

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And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, ...

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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be...

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I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a ...

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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...

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I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the l...

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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry ...

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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some messa...

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Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

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As Ganin looked up at the skeletal roof in the ethereal sky he realized with merciless clarity that ...

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For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child o...

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One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tom...

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And the next day the gondolier came with a train of other gondoliers, all decked in their holiday ga...

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious...

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That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentime...

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Well, I've got an idea," said Rabbit, "and here it is. We take Tigger for a long explore, somewhere ...

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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve ...

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Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the...

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Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

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Alan MooreV for Vendetta

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value t...

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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...

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There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibac...

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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

The pattern's laid out on the bedWith dozens of colors of threadBut you've got the needleI guess tha...

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Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, bu...

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Sadness is a state of sin.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should...

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And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired st...

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How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own...

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...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reaso...

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Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

But most of the time, with a contented resignation that comes normally to a man only at the end of a...

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Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something ha...

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Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman

I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?

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Arthur MillerDeath of a Salesman

The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring...

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A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

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Audre LordeZami: A New Spelling of My Name

He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood t...

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Audrey NiffeneggerHer Fearful Symmetry

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunli...

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they al...

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A sad, plangent music. In the British camp, Sharpe thought, they would be singing, but no one was si...

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The funniest people are the saddest ones

Don't worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well.

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