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Edmund Waller | Sadness Quotes
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.




Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!


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