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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more."

Taken Twilight Sad
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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!"

Feet Sad Thinking Of You
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Lou Harrison Composer
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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."

Trying Dangerous Sad
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?"

Heart Sweet Sad
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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist
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"It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower."

Flower Sad Breakup
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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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."

Eye Pain Sad
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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?"

Pain Gold Sad
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A.S. King Author
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"You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more."

Gone Sad Breakup
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"I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats."

Heart Together Sad
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"Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat."

Dream Sad Bread
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Djuna Barnes Author, Poet
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"A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep."

Men Running Sad
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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
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"Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind."

Men Animal Sad
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