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Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.




George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.


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