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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

No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, ...

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She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the...

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Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, sh...

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birth...

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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, ...

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I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

What i'm trying to say is this. A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certai...

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It’s one thing when you lose a friend or when your friends become enemies, but it’s the worst when f...

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Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your...

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People says it gets easier. People are stupid."-Vlad

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successivel...

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Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...

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For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettin...

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To be a bear and love a she-bear, that would not be such a bad life, and would, at least, be a far b...

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I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only mo...

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And empty words are evil.

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

Happy?" asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. "Ah, you do not kno...

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There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure ...

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And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortun...

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Howard PyleThe Story of King Arthur and His Knights

He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitt...

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I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own t...

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Sadness is also a kind of defence.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have...

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Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was lo...

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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being a...

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He had a powerful kind of ache inside of him, half joy, half terrible sadness.

Ma è commovente, Severus» osservò Silente, serio.«Ti sei affezionato al ragazzo, dopotutto?»«A lui?»...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

the world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd m...

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Well here we are, just the four of us that started out together,' said Merry. 'We have left all the ...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Return of the King

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it no...

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We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so ...

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How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?

I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?

I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror befor...

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Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I s...

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In a daydream I used to have, all these places were points of happiness to me; all these places were...

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Always remember, child... that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If yo...

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Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love;Lay aside sadness and sing How love that pa...

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He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became...

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Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all ho...

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, an...

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Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloo...

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In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even e...

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A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness...

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that qu...

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Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in...

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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my...

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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 ...

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A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was aliv...

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I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why ...

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You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, w...

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there ...

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Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?

And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me,...

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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all...

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Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young Werther

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything see...

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The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that ever...

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

The silence broke:"Sometimes I liked it", I said "Sometimes I liked it that she was dead.""You mean ...

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life s...

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