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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.


Percy Bysshe Shelley


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And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.


Orson Scott Card


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The saddest thing is an old bag lady, freezing to death in the snow on Christmas Eve, and the last thing she sees is a family in a nice warm diner getting beheaded by the Taliban.


Chris Onstad


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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.


Isaac Asimov


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Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.


Louis E. Boone


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This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.


William Shatner


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The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.


Merle Travis


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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.


John le Carre


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I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.


Lena Dunham


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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.


John Greenleaf Whittier


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