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Jean-Paul Sartre | Sadness Quotes
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.


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