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"If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children."

Anna Quindlen on Sad

More quotes about Sad

  • "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

    Khalil Gibran on Sad

  • "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Sad

  • "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

    Helen Keller on Sad

  • "If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough."

    Audrey Hepburn on Sad

  • "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

    Khalil Gibran on Sad

More quotes by Anna Quindlen

  • "The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

  • "There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."

  • "I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me."

  • "I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."

  • "The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female."

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