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Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.


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