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• I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Morning, Faces, Firsts

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sole, Whole, Mansions

  "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" l. 13 (1932)

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• Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Oscar Wilde (1909). “De profundus”

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• In the midday sun, a bright light will be barely noticed. Yet in the darkest night, even the smallest light can make an enormous difference.

  Ralph Marston

  Night, Light, Differences

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• There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

  George Berkeley

  Thinking, Mind, Religion

  George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser (1732). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”, p.142

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• O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking Of You, Feet, Years

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1864). “Tales of a Wayside Inn”, p.224

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• Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

  Angela Carter

  Heart, Autumn, Rose

  Angela Carter (1987). “Saints and Strangers”, Penguin Group USA

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• The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

  Stephen King

  Time, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Heart, Night

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.131, Delphi Classics

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• Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

  Phil Coulter

  Night, Trying, Awful

  Song: Donegal Danny

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• As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.

  Sonia Johnson

  Normalcy, Pilots, Normality

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• We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

  Mark Twain

  Music, Feels, Musician

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Eye, Use

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10”, p.306

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• Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Justice, Divine, Lost

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One”, p.11, Wildside Press LLC

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• There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

  Herman Melville

  Lasts, Firsts, Found

  Herman Melville (1852). “Pierre; Or, The Ambiguities”, p.352

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• He that shuts love out, in turn shall be Shut out from love, and on her threshold lie, Howling in outer darkness.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Lying, Darkness

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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• My thoughts hold mortal strife, I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries, Peace to my soul to bring, Oft calls that prince which here doth monarchize; But he, grim-grinning king, Who caitiffs scorns and doth the blest surprise, Late having deck'd with beauty's rose his tomb, Disdains to crop a weed, and will not come.

  William Drummond

  Weed, Kings, Rose

  William Drummond, Peter Cunningham (1833). “The Poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden: With Life, by Peter Cunningham”, p.234

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• You'll get through this. And I know it's impossible to believe right now, but it gets better. Trust me.

  Susane Colasanti

  Breakup, Believe, Get Better

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.18, Penguin

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• A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Looks, Delight

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Money, Abstract

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• I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

  Lord Byron

  Sea, Lovers, Pity

  LORD BYRON (1875). “DON JUAN”, p.155

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• We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

  Lou Harrison

  Trying, Dangerous, Term

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• When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

  Hannah Simone

  Breakup, Pretending, Should

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• There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

  Neve Campbell

  Feelings, Elation, Stage

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. January 5, 2004.

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