Top 99 Quotes About Sadness And Death

#1. It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.

Kate DiCamillo

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#2. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.

Tim O'Brien

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#3. A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope!

Eugenie De Guerin

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#4. And at the closing of the day
She loosed the chain, and down she lay;
The broad stream bore her far away,
The Lady of Shallot.

Alfred Tennyson

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#5. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.

Kellie Elmore

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#6. She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

Haruki Murakami

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#7. One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

David Ignatow

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#8. Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

Auliq Ice

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#9. He may take long walks
in the raining dark
almost aimlessly
to a spot of soaked grass
in a neighbor's open field.
He's decided this is the place
for you and him to meet again.

Kristen Henderson

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#10. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life.

Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Ruth Ahmed

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#11. I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.

Molli Fields

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#12. We have seen death before, Marnie and I, a mountain of ice melting over time, drops of water freezing at your core reminding you every day of that which has vanished, but the despair we know today is a sadness sailing sorrow through every bone and knuckle.

Lisa O'Donnell

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#13. Odd, Tom thought, that some girls meant sadness and death. Some girls looked like sunlight, creativity, joy, but they really meant death, and not even because the girls were enticing their victims, in fact one might blame the boys for being deceived by - nothing at all, simply imagination.

Patricia Highsmith

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#14. Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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#15. My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her ... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.

Salvador Dali

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#16. It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die?

Emilie Autumn

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#17. I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Andie MacDowell

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#18. Her death leaves me both depleted and emboldened. That's what tragedy does to you, I am learning. The sadness and wild freedom of it all impart a strange durability. I feel weathered and detached, tucking my head against the winds and trudging forward into life.

Claire Bidwell Smith

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#19. Time goes on, and your life is still there, and you have to live it. After a while you remember the good things more often than the bad. Then, gradually, the empty silent parts of you fill up with sounds of talking and laughter again, and the jagged edges of sadness are softened by memories.

Lois Lowry

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#20. The cross of Christ, embraced with love, never brings sadness with it, but joy, the joy of being saved and of doing a little of what he did on the day of his death.

Pope Francis

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#21. God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

Martin Luther

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#22. When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friend, just remember that death is not the end.

Bob Dylan

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#23. Think of it, I literally had to touch death and be born again to live a glimpse of the life that I never had.

Sapan Saxena

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#24. Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.

Rosamund Lupton

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#25. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

John Knowles

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#26. I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying. This was not the frailty of a man who is said to be "only human," subject to a weakness or a vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief.

Don DeLillo

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#27. I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

David Thewlis

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#28. Yes, I'm broken. And yes, he's broken. But the more we talk about it, the more we share our sadness, the more I start to believe that there could be a chance to fix us, a chance that we could save each other.

Jasmine Warga

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#29. Sadness clings to you like a cat unwilling to release its claws, so you embrace it and stroke it until it is content to sleep in your heart, until awakened by a sound, a smell, or a memory...but it never leaves you.

D.S. Mixell

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#30. When a rap song glorifies violence, death and sadness and loss is inflicted because of the violence.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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#31. With ardent sadness he contemplated the scene of his death for a long time, endlessly revising it like a work of art and surrounding it with images of this world, images that still imbued his thoughts, but that, already slipping away from him in his gradual departure, became vague and beautiful.

Marcel Proust

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#32. Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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#33. Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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#34. Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charlie Chaplin

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#35. My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

Brooke Shields

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#36. If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Roy Rogers

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#37. Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don't even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it's all real here. Here it's real.

Lucian Bane

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#38. He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger

David Morrell

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#39. Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Basil Hume

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#40. A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Eudora Welty

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#41. A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Jean Racine

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#42. The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.

Nicholaus Patnaude

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#43. Christmas is the beachhead of God's campaign against sin and sadness, darkness and death, fear and frustration.

Tullian Tchividjian

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#44. We live in a very entertaining world, but the sad fact is that so much of that entertainment is fruitless and empty. Only building nothing but failure and sadness.

Auliq Ice

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#45. Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

Gail Carriger

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#46. Everything I've ever known is death and pain; being drenched in life feels good.

J.R. Johansson

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#47. Who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,

Allen Ginsberg

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#48. And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.

Howard Pyle

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#49. The greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.

Shalom Auslander

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#50. Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

Esther Earl

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#51. I miss your face. That big bright smile. You always had it, in any weather. It's hard for me to find one these days. These cold November days. Except when I think of you.

Kellie Elmore

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#52. We all come and go. This universe is staying here with endless joy of welcoming and an infinite sadness of farewell.

Debasish Mridha

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#53. She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.

Jonathan Tropper

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#54. Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

Aubrey Dark

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#55. She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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#56. ...and when we die
we die alone
I cry, I cry alone
Like a piece of stone
I am thrown
into the wavy ocean of life
to atone...to atone
Only to atone...

Munia Khan

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#57. What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live?
Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?

Heidi R. Kling

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#58. The sadness of death lies in the fact that it cannot be reversed. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.

Sulari Gentill

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#59. Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#60. I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.

Kristen Hope Mazzola

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#61. I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#62. It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Thomas Bernhard

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#63. Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Simone De Beauvoir

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#64. Do not fear to live and love again, for watching your sadness was worse than death. Do not die while you are still alive, my love. I shall be waiting for you," he said. "Live and love for me...

Kate Danley

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#65. In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

Tahir Shah

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#66. Yet as the evening of Sunday came on, a sadness as of death would overtake me, for at nine o'clock I had to return to school, where everything was cold and strange and severe - where the governesses, on Mondays, lost their tempers, and nipped my ears, and made me cry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#67. The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear ... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away ... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Umberto Eco

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#68. There does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

Katherine Mansfield

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#69. People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

James O'Barr

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#70. Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

Blaise Pascal

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#71. I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore.

Rebecca McNutt

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#72. I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.

Jessica Reader

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#73. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.

Frank Lentricchia

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#74. A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

Ibn Ata Allah

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#75. Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

V.C. Andrews

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#76. I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

George MacDonald

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#77. When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order.

Chris Cleave

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#78. It had struck me that the world was full of holes, holes which you could fall into, never to be seen again. I couldn't understand the difference between disappearance and death. Both seemed the same to me, both left holes. Holes in your heart holes in your life.

Sally Gardner

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#79. Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.

Tom Drury

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#80. Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

Pablo Neruda

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#81. They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

Brad McKinniss

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#82. Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

Agatha Christie

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#83. My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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#84. Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

Trish Doller

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#85. When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

Ruth Reichl

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#86. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

Nina LaCour

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#87. It was good. It was like something inordinately beautiful and out of this world. Like I'd found an actual planet that I didn't know had been there all along. Planet Heroin. The place where there was no pain.

Cheryl Strayed

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#88. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether occupy a bare one per cent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine per cent is just living in waiting.

Osamu Dazai

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#89. From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection.

Giacomo Casanova

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#90. In the mornings, my pain was magnified by about a thousand. In the morning there weren't only those sad facts about my life. Now there was also the additional fact that I was a pile of shit.

Cheryl Strayed

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#91. If love were human I would've set them on fire by now - a screaming blaze of smoke and flesh. I'd breathe in the blackness once more just to feel love's destruction, its mortality filling in the hollow of my ribcage without a heart.

Piper Payne

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#92. The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Angela Carter

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#93. Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.

Emily Bronte

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#94. I oscillate between life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil.

Alexander McQueen

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#95. Wherever Jordan's going - and I do believe we all go somewhere - think of it as the light that will bring him home.

Cassandra Clare

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#96. Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?

Kristin Cashore

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#97. How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I'd grow old with that we won't have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?

Nicole Ireland

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#98. It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

George W. Bush

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#99. Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.

Margaux Bergen

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