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Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Company in Misery makes it light.




Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.


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