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Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.




Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.




Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.


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