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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.


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