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Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Francoise Sagan | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.


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