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The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.