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Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.




Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.


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