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Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.


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