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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Brian Jacques
    “Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”
    ― Brian Jacques, Taggerung
    tags: crying, emotion, emotions, flowers, fruit, growing, nature, sadness, sunlight, tears, trees, water
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    Billy Joel
    “I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”
    ― Billy Joel
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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
    ― Edna St. Vincent Millay
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    John Green
    “What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Nicole Krauss
    “there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
    ― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
    tags: comfort, sad, sadness
    2681 likes

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    Jeremy Aldana
    “I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes”
    ― Jeremy Aldana
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    Sarah Addison Allen
    “Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
    ― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
    tags: sadness, wisdom
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    “I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.”
    ― Rachel Sontag, House Rules: A Memoir
    tags: alone, loneliness, lonely, sad, sadness
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    Elizabeth Scott
    “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.”
    ― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl
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    Lindsey Kelk
    “It's OK not to be OK.”
    ― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York
    tags: sadness
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
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    Jess C. Scott
    “One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies.

    “They’re straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won’t die.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, death, desire, dying, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, flowers, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, lilies, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth-beauty, truth-love-hope, urban-fantasy
    144 likes

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    Bernie Mcgill
    “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.”
    ― Bernie Mcgill, The Butterfly Cabinet
    tags: gothic, historical-fiction, ireland, irish, literary-fiction, mother, passion, secret, victorian
    161 likes

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    Grant Morrison
    “I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.”
    ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
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    Marcus Sedgwick
    “If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.”
    ― Marcus Sedgwick
    tags: gothic, poem
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    Ned Vizzini
    “I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here."
    "Is there something wrong with that?"
    "Absolutely.”
    ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
    tags: depression, sadness, suicide, therapy
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The sadness will last forever.”
    ― Vincent van Gogh
    tags: forever, sadness, van-gogh, vincent-van-goghogh
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    Phoebe Stone
    “Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
    ― Phoebe Stone, The Boy on Cinnamon Street
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    Nick Hornby
    “When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”
    ― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
    tags: a-long-way-down, life, sad, sadness
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    R.L. LaFevers
    “I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.”
    ― R. L. LaFevers, Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh
    tags: affection, cats, sadness
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: grief, grief-inspirational, heartbreak, life, life-lessons, love, love-hurts, love-story, price-of-love, prices, romance, sad, sad-but-true, sadness, true-love
    2523 likes

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    Joshua Wisenbaker
    “Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.”
    ― Joshua Wisenbaker
    tags: heartache, sadness, tears
    510 likes

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    Maureen Child
    “Sometimes you have to get sad before you get happy 'cause otherwise how would you know the difference?”
    ― Maureen Child, And Then Came You: Sam's Story
    tags: happiness, sadness
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    Matthew Quick
    “Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
    ― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook
    tags: endurance, feelings-of-weakness, happiness, life, literature, movie, sadness
    761 likes

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    Marjorie Garber
    “If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”
    ― Marjorie Garber
    tags: dog, joy, sadness
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    Amy Lichtenhan
    “He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.”
    ― Amy Lichtenhan, Pulled
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    Chris Adrian
    “I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.”
    ― Chris Adrian, The Children's Hospital
    tags: anger, rage, sadness
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  • #31
    “Pain is pain...Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less.”
    ― J.A. Redmerski The Edge of Never
    tags: hurt, loss, pain, problems, sad, sadness
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    Matthieu Ricard
    “We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.”
    ― Matthieu Ricard, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
    tags: happiness, life, problems, sadness
    62 likes



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