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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

—Walter Scott

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People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all.

—Libba Bray in Going Bovine

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It's great when you finally realize that being miserable doesn't protect you from bad stuff happening.

—Alain de Botton

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There are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.

—Molly McAdams in From Ashes

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Just because we aren't crying on the outside doesn't mean we aren't completely wrecked on the inside.

—Rachel Van Dyken

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I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

—Olive Schreiner

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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." . . . I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions, like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects to "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.

—Jeffrey Eugenides

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

—Mario Puzo

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

—Miguel de Unamuno

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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.

—Samuel Johnson in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

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She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface.

—Diane Chamberlain in The Lost Daughter

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Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.

—Cornelia Funke in Inkheart

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

—Christopher Morley

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Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

—C. S. Lewis

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