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The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.




P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136


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