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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Richard Hovey | Sadness Quotes
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Subhash Kak | Sadness Quotes
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
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.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.


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