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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.


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