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Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.


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