“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.”

“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”

“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.”

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”

“Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.”

“We loved, sir — used to meet:
How sad and bad and mad it was —
But then, how it was sweet!”

“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”

“The sadness within ourselves should teach us to be empathetic, that there is the sadness of others who may be so much bigger than ours, that we cannot even bear it.”

“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”

“We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.”