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John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Joe Hill | Sadness Quotes
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.


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