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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.




Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.


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