“SADNESSES OF THE COVENANT: Sadness of God's love; Sadness of God's back [sic]; Favorite-child sadness; Sadness of b[ein]g sad in front of one's God; Sadness of the opposite of belief [sic]; What if? Sadness; Sadness of God alone in heaven; Sadness of a God who would need people to pray to Him…”

“Well, let me leave it at this: if God does exist, He would have a great deal be sad about. And if He doesn’t exist, then that too would make Him quite sad, I imagine. So to answer your question, God must be sad.”

“Sadness makes you God's prisoner.”

“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.”

“When men feel happy, they think of men who love; when they feel sad they think and pray to God.”

“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”

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

“I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.”

“Not sad because you lost me
But sad because you thought it was cool to be sad”