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Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.




Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Company in Misery makes it light.




Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.


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