- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sad Quotes
Grief, empathy, and the quiet weight of tears.
These sad quotes move from a claim that art keeps people from sinking into despair, to a sharp comparison between Hollywood's social hierarchy and high school cliques. One entry reflects on how personal experience shapes character writing, while another makes a moving case that tears are a sign of strength rather than weakness. See Poems for more on this feeling in verse.
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- Gentle
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
- Happy Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.
- Understanding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older is something you look forward to.
- Bed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was depressed a lot as a kid, and I was really sad and wouldn't be able to get out of bed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to write a sad song to remind me of the fact that I'm always moving around. I wanted something to cheer me up.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I went through puberty really late in life or something. I always looked like a little, sad Thai boy up until I was 26.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020