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Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.




William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.


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