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The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.




Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.


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