“Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.”
Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
The Starlings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Soul Music
Source: Soul Music
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