~ I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. ~
~ What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest. ~
~ A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. ~
~ It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people. ~
~ Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth. ~
~ Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
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~ There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. ~
~ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. ~
~ Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
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~ It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. ~
~ There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell ~
~ Sadness is always the legacy of the past; regrets are pains of the memory ~