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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.




Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.


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