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• Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  Jean de La Fontaine (2013). “Selected Fables: A Dual-Language Book”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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  You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Happiness, Sad, Being Happy

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

  Sandra Bullock

  Scary, Middle, Floats

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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  How sad to see a father with money and no joy. The man studied economics, but never studied happiness.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Sad, Father

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 11, 2016

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

  Olive Schreiner

  Sad, Hurt, Kindness

  Olive Schreiner (1988). “Olive Schreiner Letters: 1871-1899”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All good things must come to an end.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Sad, Good Night, Goodnight

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• 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

  Sad, Death, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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  And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Gentleman, Ladies And Gentlemen

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

  Salvador Dali

  Desire, Artistic, Fear Of Death

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• He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

  Voltaire

  Wise, Wisdom, Adversity

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• Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Passing, Human Experience

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• I don't think I have a sad life. I just talk about all my feelings and emotions.

  Jhene Aiko

  Thinking, Feelings, Emotion

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. September 9, 2014.

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• One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. Love doesn't conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool.

  Donna Tartt

  Lying, Thinking, Doe

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.211, Vintage

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• Life is just a bowl of pits.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Success, Humor

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• Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Life Is, Can Do

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.496, Simon and Schuster

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• Any of you who have members of your family in the lifestyle, we have a member of our family that is [lesbian]. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Thinking, Satan

  "'Gays are part of Satan and their life is bondage': Bachmann's thoughts on homosexuality". Article by Mark Duell, www.dailymail.co.uk. July 13, 2011.

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• There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

  Octavian Paler

  Inability, Emptiness, Wilderness

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• I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress.

  Jandy Nelson

  Sorry, Dresses, Steps

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.77, Penguin

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• We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.

  Michele Bachmann

  Real, Gay, Thinking

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