“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.”
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“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
“If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.”
“There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.”
“I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.”
“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.”
“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
“If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.”
“Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.”
“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”
“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
“The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
“Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.”
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
“Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.”
“All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.”
“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”
“Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.”
“As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.”
“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”
“Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.”