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Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.




Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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