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Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."




Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.


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