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Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.




Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!




Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
James Thomson | Sadness Quotes
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
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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