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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.




Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
James Howell | Sadness Quotes
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.


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