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Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Tori Amos | Sadness Quotes
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.


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