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Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.




Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.


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