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
More Quotes By A.E. Housman
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There’s nothing...
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover.' Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for...
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come...
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.
