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“She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?”
“Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that...”
“I believe that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension that we find paralyzing because we no longer hear our surprised feelings living. Because we are alone with the alien thing that has en...”
“Great sadnesses they are the moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy perplexity, everything in us withdraws, a stillness comes, and the new...”
“I have learned that when sadness comes to visit me, all I can do is say I see you. I spend some time with it, get up, and say goodbye.I dont push it away, I own it. And because I own it, I let it go.”
“the sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might take”
“Suicide is the way OUT of life, but, leaving everyone behind is the way INTO sadness.”
“Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.”
“Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.”
“There are no sad days, only sad thoughts.”
“The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocksso it sounded.”
“I wish I didnt have a heart that God wrote Sad on.”
“Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.”
“You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!”
“She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum”
“The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but...”
“The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.”
“In vain we roared;in vain we triedTo rouse her into laughter:Her pensive glances wandered wideFrom orchestra to rafter -"TIER UPON TIER!" she said,and sighed;And silence followed after.”
“Scarce was the verdict spoken,When that still calm was broken,A childish form hath burst into the throng;With tears and looks of sadness,That bring no news of gladness,But tell too surely something...”
“Perhaps it goes without saying that I believe in the geographic cure. Of course you can't out-travel sadness. You will find it has smuggled itself along in your suitcase. It coats the camera lens, ...”
