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Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.


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