Sad Words Quotes

• 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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• For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

  Carl Jung

  Happiness, Sad, Happy

  "The Art of Living". Interview with Gordon Young in 1960. "C.G. Jung Speaking". Book edited by William McGuire and R.F.C. Hull, archive.org. 1977.

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• Tears are words the heart can't express

  Gerard Way

  Sad, Heart, Sorrow

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  The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty.

  Chris Cleave

  Way, Scar, Speak

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Stories, Alive

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

  Guy Wetmore Carryl

  Vines, Might, Moral

  Guy Wetmore Carryl (1902). “Grimm tales made gay”, Irvington Pub

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• Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "could have, might have, should have,and might have been." Create yourself and live the story of your own unique life.

  Rita Zahara

  Motivational, Unique, Should Have

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