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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.




Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.


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