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George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.


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