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Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).




Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?


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