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Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.


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