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Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?




Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.


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