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Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...


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