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Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.


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