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Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.




Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!


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