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  • Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

    House   Robins   Stories  
    A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.18, Egmont UK
  • If you tell yourself a sad story, the body reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-aggrandizing story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you realize it’s all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of the mind, out of the dream. You don’t awaken, what has eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is eternally awake is what you are.

    Dream   Self   Mind  
    Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

  • Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

    Country   War   Home  
    Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster
  • Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

    Summer   Running   Sweet  
    Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK
  • A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

  • What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

    Twitter post from Jan 20, 2010
  • The curious beauty about African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad story.

  • Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

  • I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.

  • Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive

    Mean   Stories   Alive  
    Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.298, Simon and Schuster
  • One thing that I believe is that every time I write something, I am taking the time to celebrate. Even if I am writing a sad story or an angry poem, I am still giving those stories my time and attention.

    Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.
  • An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • Death makes sad stories of us all.

    "Grim Fandango". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?

    Cheer   Tired   Heart  
    L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.4750, Delphi Classics
  • Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

    Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.416, Scholastic Inc.
  • The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

    Sadness   Wish   Stories  
  • Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

    Mean   Stories   Alive  
    Chris Cleave (2012). “Gold: A Novel”, p.349, Simon and Schuster
  • It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

    Simple   People   Stories  
  • Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

    People   Stories   Woe  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

    Kings   Wall   Farewell  
    'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 2, l. 155
  • Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

    Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.
  • I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You’re alive. And you stand up and see the lights and the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song in that drive with the people you love most in this world. And in this moment I swear… we are infinite.

    Song   Light   People  
  • What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

    Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.217, Vintage
  • I cry all the time. It's more like when didn't you cry. My friends are like, 'Oh God, she's sobbing again.' I cry if I'm happy, sad, normal... What really gets me is when I read a sad story about a child in the paper, especially at the moment with my hormones raging.

    "Interrogation: Sara Cox". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2008.
  • Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

    Player   Guitar   Guy  
  • And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.

    Death   Kings   Stories  
    1595 Richard. Richard II, act 3, sc.2, l.148-50.
  • Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

    Voice   Stories   Actors  
  • You can do weird things on TV - there are happy stories, sad stories, dark stories. But with a movie, it always has to end satisfying. Unless you're the Coen brothers, and it ends with somebody getting shot in the head.

    Brother   Dark   Stories  
    Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. July 5, 2016.
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