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Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Susie Bright | Sadness Quotes
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.


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