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Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.




Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.


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