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Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Ben Jonson | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.




Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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.
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.


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