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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.




Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.




Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.


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