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Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.




Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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