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Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?




John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.


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