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Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.




Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!


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