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Madame Swetchine | Sadness Quotes
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.




Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)




Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.


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