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William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.


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