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Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.




Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.


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