“As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
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“I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.”
— Jasmine Guy
Author: Jasmine Guy
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“But I now entered on my fifteenth year – a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.”
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
Author: Harriet Ann Jacobs
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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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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.”
— Voltaire
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“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”
— Jim Rohn
Author: Jim Rohn
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“Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.”
— Phillips Brooks
Author: Phillips Brooks
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“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.”
— Willie Nelson
Author: Willie Nelson
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“Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.”
— Matthew Arnold
Author: Matthew Arnold
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“Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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