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Sadness

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Patti Smith Musician
Sadness

"...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire."

Letting Go Garden Sadness
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Sadness

"The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons."

Religious Religion Sadness
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Prince Fielder Baseball Player
Sadness

"It was pretty hard to actually have to say the words with my teammates, my wife and my boys there. I realized it was going to happen before that day [I announce retirement], but to have to announce it and talk about in front of a lot of people was tougher than I expected. I'm glad that feeling has kind of gone away. That sadness hasn't lingered."

Boys Sadness Retirement
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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
Sadness

"Having lost religious faith and the humanistic values bound up with it, he [man] concentrated on technical and material values and lost the capacity for deep emotional experiences, for the joy and sadness that accompany them."

Men Religious Sadness
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Sadness

"My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear that love did not exist, could not be found. And even if it were lurking somewhere, I might never know it in my lifetime. It had become hard for me to continue to believe in love's promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power of the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love."

Believe Grief Sadness
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Ben Harper Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Sadness

"They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays."

Taken Sadness Yesterday
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David Musician
Sadness

"In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations atlast acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and sadness that we lost half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we [would] have[in our state] 400,000 [Palestinian] Arabs."

Heart Country Sadness
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Douglas Adams Writer, Humorist
Sadness

"But for a moment Dirk had a sense of inifinite loss and sadness that somewhere among the frenzy of information noise that daily rattled the lives of men he thought he might have heard a few notes that denoted the movements of gods."

Men Loss Sadness
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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Sadness

"The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves."

Sadness Ruins Reflecting Upon
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