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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.


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