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Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.




Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.


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