“Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.”– Jean Paul Related Quotes “Everything takes me longer than I expect. It’s the sad truth about life.”– Donna Tartt “The last few years have been my happiest. I’m happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don’t feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.”– William Proxmire “When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”– E. B. White