He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.
Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand — but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never Âbeing satisfied.
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Zadie Smith
What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.
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Bernhard Schlink
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.
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Sarah Addison Allen
How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.
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Philip Larkin
Are you sad?" Nicola asked. Richard turned in the chair. The scissors became motionless." Yes. I am sad. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I'm sad most of the time."" Does it bother you?"" It never used to. But now it does. Very much."" It's because the world disappoints...
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Andrew Kaufman
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... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like...
He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.
Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.
