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One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Vanna Bonta | Sadness Quotes
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.




Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!


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