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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.


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