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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.




Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Publilius Syrus | Sadness Quotes
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.


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