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Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.




Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
David Levy | Sadness Quotes
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.




Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.


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