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To write one song, I said,
As sad as the sad wind
That walks around my bed ...
(Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "To write one song, I said.")
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There they are
drooping over the breakfast plates,
angel-like,
folding in their sad wing,
animal sad....
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Cocks.")
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Sad hours seem long.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1, l. 161.
The lovelorn Romeo finds time hangs on his hands.)
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The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Pericles, in Pericles, act 1, sc. 2, l. 2.)
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
(Emily Brontë (1818-1848), British novelist, poet. Nelly, in Wuthering Heights, ch. 7 (1847).)
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What a sad business, being funny.
(Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), British actor, screenwriter, director. Terry (Claire Bloom), Limelight, to Calvero (Charles Chaplin) after he tells her of his downfall in show business (1952).)
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The still, sad music of humanity,
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (l. 92). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.
(Angela Carter (1940-1992), British postmodern novelist. repr. Black Venus, Chatto & Windus (1985). "Black Venus," p. 9, "Next Editions" (1980).)
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
(Ama Ata Aidoo (b. 1942), Ghanaian author. "The Message," Fragment from a Lost Diary and Other Stories, eds. Naomi Katz and Nancy Milton (1973).)
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Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. The narrator, in Ill Seen Ill Said, p. 17, Grove Press (1981).)
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