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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.




Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.


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