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George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.




Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.


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