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“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VIII” - 1623

“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.” William Shakespeare, “All's Well That Ends Well” - 1623

“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” - 1839

“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley” - 1962

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“Ay me! sad hours seem long.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning and the noontide night.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “This Side of Paradise” - 1920

“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself, and am only loud and merry to conceal my sadness.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“His life has much trouble and sadness, and remains far behind yours. If it were otherwise, he would never have been able to find those words.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.” Nicholas Sparks, “A Walk to Remember” - 1999

“Some people turn sad awfully young . . . No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know,...” Ray Bradbury, “Dandelion Wine” - 1957

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, “Heretics” - 1905

“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we all could be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat's Cradle” - 1963

“As long as this exists . . . this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

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