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Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.




Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.


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