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John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010


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