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Samuel Beckett | Sadness Quotes
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.




Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.


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