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“Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...”

Ifs Sadness Dog Blue Howl

Author:Alice Dunbar Nelson

“A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”

Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang

“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”

Looks Sometimes Faces Sadness Dog Existential My Dog Ceilings Angst Existential Angst Scanning

Book:What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned

Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned

“. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”

People Long Sadness Dog Sad Owning A Dog

Book:Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

Source: Marley & Me tie-in: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog

“Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.”

Said Sadness Dog Envy Tense Present Tense Said Life

Author:Douglas Coupland

“It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.”

Men Heart Sadness Dog Loneliness Sad Noise Heartbroken Missing Someone Missing You I Miss You Sad Life Sadness And Love Missing You Love Sad Feeling

Author:Eric Hoffer

“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.”

Ifs Joy Friendship Loss Sadness Dog Profound Pet Pet Loss Dog Loss Profound Sadness

Author:Marjorie Garber

“A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form.”