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Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
John Ray
Misery loves company.


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