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Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.




John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.


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