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Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!




Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.


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