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• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Friendship, Emo, Simple

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• What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

  John Green

  Hipster, Alaska, Unhappy Person

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• Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

  James MacArthur

  Walt, Merchants

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• Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

  Emile Durkheim

  Life, Sad, Taken

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.333, Routledge

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• When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

  Yann Martel

  Sad, Pain, Unbearable

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.

  James H. Austin

  Happy, Spiritual, Attitude

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.13, MIT Press

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• Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Nice, Vcr, Our Lives

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• What a sad business is being funny!

  Charlie Chaplin

  Being Funny

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• Grief alone can teach us what is man.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Grief, Men, Teach

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Feelings, Mind, Degradation

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

  Stefan Kanfer

  Sad, Grief, Loss

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• EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.

  Margaret Mead

  Dedication, Discovery, Years

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• If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Childhood, Accomplished

  Astrid Lindgren's acceptance speech for The Right Livelihood Award, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1994.

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• Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Time, Anxiety

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books

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• It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Ice Cream, Sandwiches

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

  Nick Hornby

  Sad, Complicated, Bleakness

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• Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

  Dolly Parton

  Pms, Tears, Fit

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• When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

  Dianna Agron

  Inspirational, Sad, Dark

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Jul 18, 2012

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• Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

  Sarah Ruhl

  Stars, Lying, Hands

  Sarah Ruhl (2006). “The Clean House and Other Plays”

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• Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

  George MacDonald

  Sad, Beauty, Together

  George MacDonald (1872). “Within and Without”, p.141

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• Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

  Christina Rossetti

  Happiness, Smile, Sad

  "Remember" l. 13 (1862)

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• We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

  Pierre Corneille

  Perfect, Joy, Taste

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• I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

  Conor Oberst

  Sleep, Thinking, Sad Life

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• Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Jean Giraudoux (1974). “The Madwoman of Chaillot: Comedy in Two Acts”, p.65, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Simplicity

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