Humanity's greatest achievement will come when the happiness of some will no longer be the sadness of others.
Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.
But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined.
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.
The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.
There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.
Nobody is happy all the damn time. It doesn't work like that. But if you are more happy than sad then maybe you aren't barely existing
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
The baby boomer surge is forcing society to face decisions about costs - and particularly what is valuable. It's senseless for clinicians and governments to bear these choices alone; a sad effect of needless paternalism is that it places a false burd...
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since
It's sad to see old friends have to move away, but at the same time, you know the retirement home is the best place for them.
