Top 97 Quotes About Sadness Of 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. May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Herculine Barbin

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. His work was so great that it cannot be compassed in a few words. His death is one of the greatest losses ever to occur to British science.

{Describing Ernest Rutherford upon his death at age 66. Thomson, then 80 years old, was once his teacher.}

J.J. Thomson

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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. 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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#14. 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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#15. The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.

Pat Conroy

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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. Death is the greatest goal of anyone. It is something no other living human can achieve

Davis Carlson

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.

Lee Smith

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#22. Because you are afraid that only the sight of your daughter's pain can bring you sadness over Janie's death.

Sarah M. Cradit

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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'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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#26. I wither slowly in thine arms; here at the quiet limit of the world, a white hair'd shadow roaming like a dream.

Alfred Tennyson

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

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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#28. We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.

Cristiane Serruya

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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The sky was pearly grey. It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

Joseph Conrad

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#37. Those who've known great sadness have a better appreciation for happiness. Those who've seen death know the value of life.

Suzanne Supplee

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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. But to dwell prematurely on the sadness of one's death to others, Uncle Kostia, is like asking for money in advance. It's commercially unsound.

William Gerhardie

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#42. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.

Osamu Dazai

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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. I miss you with the very edge of my skin.
It winces in absence,
a giant muscle contracting.

Valentina Cano

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#46. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.

Arthur C. Clarke

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#47. It was the first time that he'd cried in a very long time. All of his emotions poured out now, in a great rush of release: it was sadness tinged with bitterness, but mostly an intensely deep feeling of loss.

EXO Books

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#48. I always knew death of this relation would beat the death out of my life.

M. Ali

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#49. 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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#50. Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Jodi Picoult

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#51. Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Paul McCartney

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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. The world was full of death, full of sadness, full of people, full of people too broken to lean on.

Ann Brashares

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#56. A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

R.J. Gonzales

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#57. 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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#58. ...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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#59. Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

Jasper Fforde

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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. 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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#69. We weep,
tears of blood,
we weep,
In despair, crying,
we weep;
the sun forever has stolen
the light from his eyes.
No more his face do we see,
no more his voice do we hear,
nor will his affectionate gaze
watch over his people.

Jane Bierhorst

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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#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. The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

Sandra Chami Kassis

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#76. You don't need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave

Munia Khan

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

V.C. Andrews

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#78. Unfortunately, the most significant moments of our lives are often unpleasant.

Andrea Cremer

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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

Piper Payne

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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Angela Carter

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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. He was now working his way through the many shades of grief. Sadness made everything gray, he'd learned, but there were different types of gray, some darker than others. There were dark spots in his memories he wasn't brave enough to enter.

Lauren DeStefano

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

George W. Bush

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#97. 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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