"I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound."
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"My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
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"Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance."
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"Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way."
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"There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality."
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"If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another. Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love."
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"Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing."
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"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
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"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."
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"This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."
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"Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you'd just be one more person crying."
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"Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad."
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"Our life is...a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment."
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"What is God-given is called nature; to follow nature is called Tao (the Way); to cultivate the way is called culture. Before joy, anger, sadness and happiness are expressed, they are called the inner self; when they are expressed to the proper degree, they are called harmony. The inner self is the correct foundation of the world, and the harmony is the illustrious Way. When a man has achieved the inner self and harmony, the heaven and earth are orderly and the myriad of things are nourished and grow thereby."
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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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"Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue."
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"I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness."
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"What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person."
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"That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion."
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"It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me."
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