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Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.




Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Chris Rock | Sadness Quotes
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.


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