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Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.




Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.


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