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“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.”

World Mean Ends Time Realizing Memories Sin Secret Gone Sadness Willing Late Claims Stranger Passing Admire Passings Too Late Time Passing Time Passes Secret Life Admiring Insufficiency

Author:Alexander Theroux

“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

“He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.”

World Sadness Leaving Stranger Beach Survivor Lone Desolate Leaving Him

Author:Robert Cormier

“The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. Images and perceptions which might otherwise be easily dispelled by a glance, a laugh, an exchange of comments, concern him unduly, they sink into mute depths, take on significance, become experiences, adventures, emotions.”

Source: Death in Venice, Tonio Kroger, and Other Writings: Thomas Mann

“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”

People Feels Art Realizing Sadness Art Is Stranger

Book:The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

Source: The Shadow Catcher: A Novel

“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”

Persons Beautiful Sadness Loneliness Quiet Lonely Originals Stranger Absurd Observation Poetic Forbidden Gregarious Quiet Person

Author:Thomas Mann

“There was something intrinsically sad about Shinjuku. A vacuum-packed hollowness that no quantity of neon could hide. Roppongi was the same, only there the sadness was older and more Western. All that movement to so little purpose. A million strangers searching for a cure to the darkness behind their eyes in the void between someone else's legs.”

Littles Eye Purpose Behinds Millions Darkness Sadness Movement Western Legs Stranger Cures Void Quantity Vacuums Neon Hollowness

Book:End Of The World Blues

Source: End Of The World Blues

“I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements.”

People Knows Want Humans Helping Pain Common Grief Behinds Steps Sadness Share Achievement Stranger Human Experience Common Denominator Lack Of Love

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.”

Soul Sin Sadness Loneliness Stranger Lust Welcome Guilty My Soul Low Self Esteem Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Madonna Ciccone