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Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.




One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."




Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.


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