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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136




Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.


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