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Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?




Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.


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