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Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
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.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.


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