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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


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