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Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.




Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
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.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.


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