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A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.