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Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
David Levy | Sadness Quotes
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.




Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.


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