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It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew. -- Henry Rollins
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. -- Sarah Addison Allen
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death. -- Frederick Douglass
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. -- Jerome K. Jerome
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said. -- Franz Kafka
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. -- Bill Blass
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything. -- Jeff Ament
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. -- Leo Tolstoy
The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes. -- Nikolai Gogol
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. -- Yann Martel
You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair. -- Sharon Creech
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. -- Nicole Krauss
It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. -- Mark Twain
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare. -- Ned Vizzini
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? -- Haruki Murakami
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else. -- Francoise Sagan
Sad stories make good books -- Khaled Hosseini
The sadness will last forever. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Sad company is bad company. -- Milan Kundera
I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon. -- Al Madrigal
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. -- Matthew Arnold
Tears are words that need to be written. -- Paulo Coelho
Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia. -- Robert R. Blake
What's my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems -- Muhammad Ali
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything -- David Almond
All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad. -- Donald Trump
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down. -- Daniel Handler
We just hide from the people we love. Sad, isn't it? -- C.C. Hunter
Sad when you spend more time trying to stay alive than living. -- J. B. Smoove
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone. -- George Bernard Shaw
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet. -- Celia Thaxter
I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff. -- Anthony Doerr
Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them. -- Elvis Presley
Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. -- Mattie Stepanek
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive -- Chris Cleave
Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand. -- Anne Robinson
And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh? -- Miyavi
I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked. -- Sarah Dessen
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Sad to say I'm missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes. -- Tiger Woods
How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness. -- Jim Rohn
I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know? -- Ned Vizzini
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! -- Dita Von Teese
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. -- Kevin Bacon
loveliness is infernally sad. -- Virginia Woolf
Happiness is a sad song. -- Charles M. Schulz
It's sad when people break up. -- Pete Townshend
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. -- Alfred Austin
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -- Jean de La Fontaine
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. -- John Steinbeck
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -- Mark Twain
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. -- Saadi
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. -- Khalil Gibran
We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. -- Carl Gustav Jung
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. -- Pierre Corneille
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company. -- Bruce Springsteen
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. -- Christopher Morley
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep. -- Taraji P. Henson
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life. -- Conor Oberst
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. -- Conor Oberst
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? -- Rumi
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. -- Thomas Huxley
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. -- Audrey Hepburn
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. -- Khalil Gibran
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. -- Phillips Brooks
I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show. -- Demi Lovato
How sad, a heart that -- Omar Khayyam
Football is a sad game. -- George Best
Even big-bird gets sad sometimes -- Andrew VanWyngarden
I'm sad, but I'm laughing. -- Alanis Morissette
The sad vicissitude of things. -- Laurence Sterne
I'm so grounded, it's sad. -- Patti LaBelle
The still, sad music of humanity. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Have all beautiful things sad destinies? -- Jean Rhys
Reprisals are but a sad resource. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Children, to be illustrious is sad. -- Howard Nemerov
Christmas makes everything twice as sad. -- Douglas Coupland
Goodness, how sad is our Russia! -- Nikolai Gogol
Stoners are cute; junkies are sad. -- Kevin Smith
Living, it can be sad too. -- Jean-Luc Godard
It's a sad and beautiful world. -- Jim Jarmusch
Atari is a very sad story. -- Steve Wozniak
I don't have many sad days. -- Billy Graham
Ay me! sad hours seem long. -- William Shakespeare
I'm a sucker for sad disco pop. -- Sophie Ellis Bextor
What a sad business is being funny! -- Charlie Chaplin
I'm not sad at all about turning 40. -- Halle Berry
I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness... -- Jean Rhys
Black is not sad... Black is poetic. -- Ann Demeulemeester
Death makes sad stories of us all. -- Tim Schafer
My suffering left me sad and gloomy. -- Yann Martel
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. -- Emily Bronte
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. -- Victor Hugo
I don't really do sad, depressing songs. -- Olly Murs
Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully. -- Christine de Pizan
Everything is so sad and so wonderful. -- Cloris Leachman
I'm sad but excited for the future. -- Warren Spector
The sad heart needs work to do. -- Joan Bauer
The opposite of sad is down's syndrome. -- Anthony Jeselnik
People are so codified - it's sad. -- Jean Paul Gaultier
Chess is a sad waste of brains. -- Walter Scott
All beauty is sad. For it fades. -- David Gemmell
I miss the comfort in being sad, -- Frances Farmer
I love jazz music and sad music. -- Fred Durst
A lot of country music is sad. -- Willie Nelson
Songs are as sad as the listener. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Are all ends of life so sad? -- Marie of Romania
We don't have time to be sad -- Maggie Stiefvater
In film, you can have sad endings. -- Anna Torv
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad. -- Victor Hugo

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