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John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
David Lynch | Sadness Quotes
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.


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