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George Wither | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.


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