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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,Sorrow calls no time that 's gone;Violets plucked, the sweetest rainMakes not fresh nor grow again.
John Fletcher, The Queen of Cori
Good. There are 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 Gustav Jung
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Virginia Woolf
It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.
Allen Ginsberg
Sad people have more sober reflections.
James Dye
If my life was a hole, it would be deep, filled with melancholy and sadness.
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
William Cowper
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
Steven Tyler
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham Maslow
This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.
Janet Fitch
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
Bible
Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.
Dorothy Parker
Tears are words that need to be written.
Paulo Coelho
The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children.
John Green