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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.




Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.


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