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Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.




Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.


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