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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.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.


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