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Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.




Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Erik Satie | Sadness Quotes
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.




Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.


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