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John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
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.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Hannah More | Sadness Quotes
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.




Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.


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