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Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.




John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.




Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Chris Rock | Sadness Quotes
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.


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