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Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.


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