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Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.


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