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Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Madame Swetchine | Sadness Quotes
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
N. K. Jemisin | Sadness Quotes
There is no logic to grief.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.


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