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

“We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

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

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

“Whatever else he was during his life, he was never dull, and the world forgives almost anything but stupidity.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

“Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

“"Trying to stop Robinho is a physical fatigue. Trying to stop Romário is an emotional fatigue."”

Romário (1966) Brazilian association football player

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”

Richard Yates book The Easter Parade