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Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.


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