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I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...

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When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No ...

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The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost eve...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...

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For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious ...

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Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author

I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eye...

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You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was ...

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There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made G...

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What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. ...

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There...

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Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood.

When Jean and his mother left Etreuilles, Monsieur Sureau had gathered for them great boxfuls of haw...

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You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pi...

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It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

An old walrus-faced waiter attended to me; he had the knack of pouring the coffee and the hot milk f...

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...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl...

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Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can...

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You’ve got sadness in you, I’ve got sadness in me – and my works of art are places where the two sad...

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The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of t...

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There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert the...

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A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard ti...

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I believe you did not have a happy life.I believe you were cheated.I believe your best friends were ...

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No, I mean really listen. Here's a story, and you don't have to visit manyhouses to find it. One per...

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Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

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We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and oft...

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Matthieu RicardHappiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide ...

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't per...

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I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a ...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.

Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is t...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. ...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to ob...

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I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...

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Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable.

What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you p...

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I continue to stare, my eyes missing nothing, remembering the moments we just shared together. But i...

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Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days...

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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I...

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She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts...

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She struggled with her sadness, but tried to conceal it, to divide it into smaller and smaller parts...

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Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned...

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HOW ANGELS SLEEP. Unsoundly. They toss and turn, trying to understand the mystery of the living. The...

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there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who p...

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The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already n...

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Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of underst...

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In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

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I wonder if I have ever actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remem...

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I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

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I yearned for everything long gone.

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by ...

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I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

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In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a...

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Utterly, irrevocably, lost

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

She had quickly learned that to show unhappiness was to risk the loss of love.

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P. D. JamesAn Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Las lágrimas que no se lloranesperan en pequeños lagos?O serán ríos invisiblesque corren hacia la tr...

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Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars s...

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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and t...

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I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her....

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Pablo NerudaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

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Pablo NerudaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

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Pablo NerudaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ...

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Kvothe looked at Bast for a long moment. “Oh Bast,” he said softly to his student. His smile was gen...

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Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the se...

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I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Pa...

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She's too sad to be beautiful. No one that sad can still be beautiful.

[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to...

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Tears are words that need to be written.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

For years, I had fought against my heart, because I was afraid of sadness, suffering, and abandonmen...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

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

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Paulo CoelhoThe Fifth Mountain

Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their p...

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Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plan...

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What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this,” said Cesare. “We ca...

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We look before and after,And pine for what is not;Our sincerest laughterWith some pain is fraught;Ou...

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Never such innocence,Never before or since,As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving t...

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How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

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Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...

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We never taste a perfect joy our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

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

At first I thought he was laughing because his shoulders were shaking, but then he put his palms on ...

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It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.