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Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.


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