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Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.


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