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

Sadness, Dying, Living, Regret

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

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"You can't be happy, you was prank again and again and you was just in a trap nothing else. That wasn't him, even this and that guy. You just killed the witnesses and few cops!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Sadness, Emotion, Suffering, Healing

"His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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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

"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."

Richard Rohr, American Theologian

Sadness, Religion, Change, Past, Future

"Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul...."

Virginia Alison, British Author

Sadness, Feelings, Dream, Isolation

"I wanted to tell her happy was hard for me. But I think she already knew that."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Sadness, Happiness, Struggle, Emotion, Understanding

"It's always your assumptions about you, about others, about future that make reality worse than it actually is."

Dragos Bratasanu, Romanian Scientist

Sadness, Mindset, Reality, Thought, Perception

"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."

Akshay Vasu, Indian Poet

Sadness, Darkness, Soul, Pain, Heart

"He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret."

Privacy

"But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted."

Simplicity

"I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give up," she whispered back."

Encouragement

"Never tell a child that something it's too hard."

Parenting

"If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely."

Sensitivity

"Some things you endure for a reason."

Endurance

"The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."

Storytelling

"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

Legacy

"You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five."

Fulfillment

"We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.And facing death changes that?"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials."

Awareness