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Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.




Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Britney Spears | Sadness Quotes
Saying no is so heartbreaking.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"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.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.


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