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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.


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