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Everyone dies alone, Eragon. Whether you are a king on a battlefield or a lowly peasant lying in bed...

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On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, a...

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Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...

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A sweet slip of a girl like you, why should you have to know anything about the sorrow of the world?...

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For the first time in years, she felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that she was alone here, an...

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For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an o...

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The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester ...

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Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroad

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my sp...

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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake...

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Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but wha...

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I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhi...

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37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was l...

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I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt assadness.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to liv...

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In Japanese and Italian, the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine, and you?" In German it's ans...

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David SedarisLet's Explore Diabetes with Owls

There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help ...

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Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against h...

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But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would ...

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Howl pointed a shaky hand up toward the canopy of his bed. “That’s why I love spiders. ‘If at first ...

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Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules se...

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Diane AckermanOne Hundred Names for Love – A Memoir

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

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Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy ...

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And, lying on my bed in some biscuit-colored hotel room in Nice, with a balcony facing the Promenade...

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Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...

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...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were un...

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Douglas AdamsThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on ...

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Thus with continued concentration and the expenditure of enormous amounts of energy he tried to keep...

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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human min...

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It's alright to die cause death is the only thing you haven't tried

I do believe God gave me a spark of genius, but he quenched it in misery.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it'...

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If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brillianc...

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My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down i...

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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in hi...

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He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couc...

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One by one, the thoughts and memories of sadness raised their hands, stood up to identify themselves...

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Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its ...

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I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame o...

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Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

In every cloud, in every tree – filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by...

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...

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I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, Eyes;I wonder if It weighs like Mine,Or has an Eas...

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tol...

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When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "over...

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Erma BombeckWhen God Created Mothers

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmt...

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...

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Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know ...

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I only wanted absolute quiet to think out why I had developed a sad attitude toward sadness, a melan...

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The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her hea...

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The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little ...

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Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the ...

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Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first so...

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Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and ...

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Fernando PessoaA Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perha...

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I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be norm...

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My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherh...

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Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon...

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...

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The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have ...

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The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its cas...

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What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre...

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There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

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Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd be...

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She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...

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He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in ...

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Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affecti...

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Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I a...

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How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...

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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who c...

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

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours...

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hi...

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I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a wor...

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Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one s...

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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninterest...

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He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.

April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that s...

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Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's ar...

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The real world—where I probably could never be happy, and never get anywhere.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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Besides being the world the kind of sadness that can not be expressed in tears. You can not explain ...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World