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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.




Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.


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