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Sweet for a little even to fear, and sweet, O love, to lay down fear at love’s fair feet; Shall not ...

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who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched o...

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to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes whe...

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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

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Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses

Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things ...

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The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high...

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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may ...

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Women share their sadness, thought Edith. Their joy they like to show off to one another. Victory, t...

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That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itsel...

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All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunli...

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

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

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Anne CarsonGrief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Come here, let me share a bit of wisdom with you.Have you given much thought to our mortal condition...

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Anne CarsonGrief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reaso...

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For once, the tears wouldn't come. She saw that Michael might have been right. It really could be to...

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Anne TylerThe Amateur Marriage

The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, ...

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Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It d...

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A man who under the influence of mental pain or unbearably oppressive suffering sends a bullet throu...

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When you experience the emotion of sadness, there will be changes in facial expression, and your bod...

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And did with sighs their fate deplore,Since I must shelter them no more;And if before my joys were s...

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The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.

He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his unde...

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From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her mor...

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Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how m...

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But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted toget...

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As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbro...

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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make ...

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The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on ...

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There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There no...

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Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering...

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Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abus...

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...

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She put him out like the burning end of a midnight cigarett. She broke his heart. He spent his whole...

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Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's...

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Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

And the worst thing about it was that you began to feel as if you had always lived on that ship, in ...

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I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life...

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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

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1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I w...

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Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparit...

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But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't w...

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Training?'Clary echoed."But we trained yesterday.""Some of us have to train everyday,Clary."Jace did...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Fallen Angels

Simon," said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark...

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Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will ...

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who care...

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She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

I want it to stop," he said. "Sophie says everyone is still searching for a cure for me. I know I ga...

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It felt like being shot with an arrow, and Will jerked back. His wineglass crashed to the floor and ...

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Tell me you love me Emma. Even if you don't mean it."-Julian Blackthorn

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from other...

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Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadse...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l...

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He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to c...

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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and...

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For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, an...

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Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Kra...

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He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...

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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: h...

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You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then...

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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...

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Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet...

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. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this hou...

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Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger...

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Chelsea HandlerMy Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Ch...

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Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Thing Around Your Neck

There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect peo...

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Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, ...

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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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