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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.




David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.


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