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Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




John Ray
Misery loves company.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Sadness Quotes
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.


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