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Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.




Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
D. H. Lawrence | Sadness Quotes
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.


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