Quotes with sadness

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  • Anita Brookner The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Alain de Botton The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Max Lerner The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Maya Angelou The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Jim Rohn The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • H. P. Lovecraft Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
    H. P. Lovecraft
    American writer (1890 - 1937)
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  • R. W. Dale We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
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  • Pierre Corneille We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Thomas Hardy Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 180
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Fuller An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Basil Hume Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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