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Joe Hill | Sadness Quotes
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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