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Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.




Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.


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