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Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.




Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.


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