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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.


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