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George Wither | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.


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