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John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.




Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!


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