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Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.




Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.


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