“It was so gorgeous it almost felt like sadness.”

“No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the valley, which men walk in easily, and is never felt at all on a steep place, like Calvary. Truth is everlasting, and so is every lover of it; and so he feels himself almost always.”

“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”

“Punk is like looking at a mirror. I already have a mirror so I don't need the Offspring to remind me how gorgeous I am.”

“It never felt so good, it never felt so right
And we're glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife.”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”

“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”