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Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!




Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
James Jones | Sadness Quotes
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.


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