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William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.


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