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Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.




Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.


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