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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.


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