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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
Arundhati RoyRead
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf WhittierRead
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure.
Carlo PetriniRead
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar WildeRead
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob MarleyRead
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard ShawRead
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte BronteRead
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
Kay Redfield JamisonRead
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose BierceRead
I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
Elizabeth BergRead
What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'
Goldie HawnRead
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante AlighieriRead
I'm not brave, I'm not fantastic. I'm like any other woman. I'm unhappy. I'm difficult. I'm sad. Am I strong, too? Maybe, but not always. There are days when I don't want to see anyone. The most important thing you learn? You can live with it.
Sonia RykielRead
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
Mary GaitskillRead
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John AshberyRead
If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
Octavia SpencerRead
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C. S. LewisRead
The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
Ted TurnerRead
I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
Katha PollittRead
I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
Marlee MatlinRead
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead

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