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“I suppose all great happiness is a little sad.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety, like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and over everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not...” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“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
“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.” William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!” William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“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
“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
“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
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“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
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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, The History of Love
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
“Ay me! sad hours seem long.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“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
“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
“The best thing for being sad . . . is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.” T. H. White, The Once and Future King
“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
“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
“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
“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
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, makes the night morning and the noontide night.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“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
“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“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
“I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one” William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
“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
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'” Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“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
“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
“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“No reflection was to be allowed now: not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet—so deadly sad—that to read one line of it...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

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