"And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible."
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"When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life."
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"Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe."
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"You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart."
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"No, nothing,' said Dumbledore, and a great sadness filled his face. 'The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom... I wish I could."
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"I AM happy”. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()"
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"Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys."
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"Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again."
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"A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint."
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"Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish."
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"That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world."
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"How can you lose something you never had, I tell myself when I'm feeling sad."
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"Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time."
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"I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness."
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"When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end."
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"I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin."
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"When your world has shattered, ain't nothing else matters. It ain't over, it's only love and that's all."
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"Sadness is a state of sin."
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"Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing."
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"I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer."
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