“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

“The world isn't a sad place, it's just big.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

“The world would be a sad place without mysteries.”

David Gemmell book The King Beyond the Gate

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

“Notice the people
who
are happy for your happiness
and
sad for your sadness.
They
are
the
ones
who deserve a special place
in your heart.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.”

Valerie Martin (1948) American writer

“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”

Tamora Pierce (1954) American writer of fantasy novels for children