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William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?


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