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Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.




Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.


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