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Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Erik Satie | Sadness Quotes
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Luigi Pirandello
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.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
James Jones | Sadness Quotes
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


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