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John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.




Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Henry Howard | Sadness Quotes
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.


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