Quotations About / On: SAD

  • 41.
    All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
    (Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), U.S. songwriter. "Old Folks at Home," Firth, Pond & Co. (1851). Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937); the original words are written in dialect: "All de world am sad," etc..)
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  • 42.
    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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  • 43.
    A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
    (Victoria (1819-1901), British monarch, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland. letter, 9 Jan. 1879, to her daughter, Crown Princess Frederick William of Prussia. Quoted in Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., ch. 28 (1964).)
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  • 44.
    Sad that our finest aspiration
    Our freshest dreams and meditations,
    In swift succession should decay,
    Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
    (Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russian poet. Eugene Onegin, ch. 8, st. 10 (1831), trans. by Oliver Elton (1943).)
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  • 45.
    No state can build
    A literature that shall at once be sound
    And sad on a foundation of well-being.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "New Hampshire.")
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  • 46.
    It is sanctionable and right
    Always to be ashamed of being sad.
    (Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Many famous feet have trod.")
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  • 47.
    The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Third Selection, New York (1986).)
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  • 48.
    The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
    (Shana Alexander (b. 1925), U.S. writer, editor. (First published 1966). "Neglected Kids—the Bright Ones," The Feminine Eye (1970).)
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  • 49.
    I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
    (Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet. Once I Pass'd through a Populous City (l. 7). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.)
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  • 50.
    I want to feel the surging
    Of my sad people's soul
    Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
    (Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981), U.S. poet. Heritage (l. 16-18). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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