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Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.




Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.


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