“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.”

“She was sad about what happened to Kostos. And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.”

“Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.
"It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.”

“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

“The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, "No, I'm happy for you?"”

“They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.”

“Once there had been joy, but now there was only sadness, and it was not, he knew, alone the sadness of an empty house; it was the sadness of all else, the sadness of the Earth, the sadness of the failures and the empty triumphs.”

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”