Jonathan Safran Foer: There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed...

Quote	There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food. Copy
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Quote: The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.
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Author:
Peter Maurer
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Sad

The sad fact is...

Quote: I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.
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Author:
Mary Gordon
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Sad

I think coldness is...

Quote: I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
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Author:
Zara Larsson
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Sad

I think my thing...

Quote: Actually, the moment of victory is wonderful, but also sad. It means that your trip is ended.
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Author:
Bill Toomey
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Sad

Actually, the moment of...

Quote: Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.
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Author:
Jeremy Corbyn
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Sad

Tony Benn and I...

Quote: I was a very sad little girl.
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Author:
Julie Andrews
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Sad

I was a very...

Quote: I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
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Author:
T. C. Boyle
Category:
Sad

I've never really been...

Quote: There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
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Author:
William James
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Sad

There must be something...

Quote: I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.
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Author:
Nick Kroll
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Sad

I find Spike Jones'...

Quote: I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.
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Author:
Mark Ruffalo
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Sad

I love 'The Sportswriter'...

Quote: Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It's really sad.
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Author:
Robert Kiyosaki
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Sad

Over a 10-year period,...

Quote: In the '50s, too many women, even though they were very smart, they tried to make the man feel that he was brainier. It was a sad thing.
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Author:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Category:
Sad

In the '50s, too...

Quote: Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting.
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Author:
Jill Abramson
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Sad

Budget cuts are a...

Quote: It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
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Author:
Dee Dee Ramone
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Sad

It was sad when...

Quote: I have felt terribly from the beginning when I saw the problems and recognized that they would be ongoing. We were hired to put back the contours of the greens as closely as possible to George Thomas's designs and were real proud of what we did. It's a sad situation now.
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Author:
Ben Crenshaw
Category:
Sad

I have felt terribly...

Quote: I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.
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Author:
Jonathan Davis
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Sad

I've been on Prozac...

Quote: I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Author:
Rachel Platten
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Sad

I work extremely hard...

Quote: Depression is the inability to construct a future.
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Author:
Rollo May
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Sad

Depression is the inability...

Quote: We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.
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Author:
Pierre Corneille
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Sad

We never taste a...

Quote: It's not like I force myself to think of sad things, but... it's more that I make music because it makes me happy.
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Author:
Jamie xx
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Sad

It's not like I...

Quote: I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.
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Author:
Dave Barry
Category:
Sad

I would not know...

Quote: There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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Author:
George Eliot
Category:
Sad

There is no despair...

Quote: Jo Sykes made these incredible leather jackets: the leather was like butter. I had one, but I lost it at a wedding in Ibiza. It was so sad; I've not been able to replace.
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Author:
Poppy Delevingne
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Sad

Jo Sykes made these...

Quote: The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Author:
Carl Jung
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Sad

The word 'happy' would...

Quote: Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.
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Author:
George Whitefield
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Sad

Among the many reasons...

Quote: I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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Author:
Claire Tomalin
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Sad

I always feel sad...

Quote: Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.
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Author:
Olivia Wilde
Category:
Sad

Fear of carbs, of...

Quote: If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.
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Author:
Jason Isbell
Category:
Sad

If I could write...

Quote: So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
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Author:
Todd Solondz
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Sad

So far, at least,...

Quote: One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I opened one to a page that had flowers glued inside. In her childish handwriting, my grandmother wrote, 'Pap died today. I am very sad.' The fact that this was true and that I could see the withered flowers made a huge impression on me.
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Author:
Laura Amy Schlitz
Category:
Sad

One day, I was...

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