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Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Men die but sorrow never dies.




William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.


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