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William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
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William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Eugene Ionesco | Sadness Quotes
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.


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