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Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.




Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.


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