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William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.


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