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Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.


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