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Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Chris Rock | Sadness Quotes
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.




Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.


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