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“I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.”

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Book:Sophie's Choice

Source: Sophie's Choice

“Singing about your sadness unburdens your soul. But the blues hollers shouted about more than being sad. They were also delivering messages in musical code. If the master was coming, you might sing a hidden warning to the other field hands . . . The blues could warn you what was coming. I could see the blues was about survival.”

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Author:B. B. King

“For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.”

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Book:Eagle's Gift

Source: Eagle's Gift

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“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”

“The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.”

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Author:T. H. White

“I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.”

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Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.”

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Book:Creed's Honor

Source: Creed's Honor

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

Source: Inferno

“Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.”

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Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated