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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.




Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.


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