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Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?


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