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They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.




Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Swami Vivekananda | Sadness Quotes
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


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