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Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
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.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.




Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...


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