If you don't know about pain and trouble, you're in sad shape. They make you appreciate life.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.