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Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.




Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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