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Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.




Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.


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