"She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is colorless. Faded like sun-drenched wallpaper. The man that stands before her has no answers to her questions, and no ointment for her fears."

Sadness, Loss, Change, Emotion, Despair

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"She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is colorless. Faded like sun-drenched wallpaper. The man that stands before her has no answers to her questions, and no ointment for her fears."

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"Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need for aloneness. Being alone allows a person to think, imagine, and take in nature. Because being alone is essential for specific human actions, similar to all other aspects of life, it is a gift."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world."

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"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash."

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"Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved."

Marie de France, French Poet

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"It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me."

Tracey Ullman, British Comedian

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Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else."

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"She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Sadness, Memory, Past, Life, Regret

"The water in the pond inside my heart doesn't shine anymore. It has turned dark. Every ghost from my mind breaks all the barriers and take a dip there, making it darker. and every time it happens, my soul in the pond cries with pain."

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"Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything."

Self-Love

"I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'."

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"Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't."

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"I have no doubt that Taylor Swift will call one day after suffering writers block: 'Alfa, I was told that you were the person to call.' I gotcha girlfriend."

Confidence

"He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?"

Sensitivity

"It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions."

Reflection

"I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us."

Commitment

"I don't compete against other women. To uplift others means I'm never looking down on them. I applaud their strength, and I remind them that we never know how strong we are until we are tested. And this life will test you... But it's not a competition. I want us all to make it."

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"She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes."

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"All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back."

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