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Sadness2 quotes
Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life's problems. — Sadness · 2015I'm too sad to walk. Just give me a few...hours. — Sadness · 2015William Shakespeare2 quotes
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped,
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. — William Shakespeare · 1594Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining. — William Shakespeare · 1594Alfred Tennyson1 quote
O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife. — Alfred Tennyson · 1850Arthur Conan Doyle1 quote
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. — Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887Carl Jung1 quote
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung · 1960Colin Murray Parkes1 quote
The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment. — Colin Murray Parkes · 1972Henry David Thoreau1 quote
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. — Henry David Thoreau · 1839Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1842Jesus1 quote
My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death. — Jesus · 60Johnny Cash1 quote
It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain. — Johnny Cash · 1994Jonathan Safran Foer1 quote
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. — Jonathan Safran Foer · 2005Kahlil Gibran1 quote
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. — Kahlil Gibran · 1926Mary Oliver1 quote
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift. — Mary Oliver · 2006Oscar Wilde1 quote
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. — Oscar Wilde · 1897R.E.M.1 quote
Everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries. — R.E.M. · 1992Ron Swanson1 quote
There has never been a sadness that can't be cured by breakfast food. — Ron Swanson · 2014William Blake1 quote
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. — William Blake · 1805Zora Neale Hurston1 quote
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. — Zora Neale Hurston · 1937