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Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.




Wesley Willis
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.


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