“There is nothing as sad, nothing as unutterably sad, as an old man crying.”
“It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.”
“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”
“There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.”
“Nothing's wrong, I'm just tired-perhaps a little sad." "You don't get sad unless something's wrong.”
“Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.”