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Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.




Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.


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