Sadness
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Sadness is not what we have but what we have missed. |
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It’s sadness enough to have once been happy. |
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There is no greater sadness than remembering happy days past. |
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So much unnecessary sadness is caused by guilt. |
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All love ends in sadness – because death leaves one lover alone. |
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Sad is the person who has nothing but money. |
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How sad the words, “It might have been.” |
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All passions have a touch of sadness. |
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To be loved and not know it – that’s sad. |
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The tragedy is to have everything except the ability to enjoy it. |
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The greatest loss in life is not death – but what dies inside us while we live. |
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If we could not forget, we could never be free from grief. |
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A great sorrow will drive out a lesser one. |
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Who weeps for others remembers himself. |
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The fairest silk is stained first. |
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Happiness is the interval between unhappiness. |
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A moment of time may make us unhappy forever. |
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The greatest pains are those you can tell no-one. |
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We destroy ourselves by regret for yesterday and fear for tomorrow. |
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Forgetfulness helps ease our grief. |
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Loneliness robs us of our happiness and mocks our success. |
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We prefer strangers because they have not yet hurt us. |
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The greatest sorrows are those we cause ourselves. |
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From happiness to sorrow may take a moment – from sorrow to happiness may take years. |
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It’s so sad to see beauty wasted. |
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How sad that bread is so dear and life is so cheap. |
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Misery is often the result of thinking too much. |
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Don’t make two sorrows out of one. |
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If you expect nothing, you won’t be disappointed. |
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Pain and boredom are the two main causes of unhappiness. |
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