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George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.




William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!


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