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Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.


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