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Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.




Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Madonna | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.




Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.


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