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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.




Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Wesley Willis
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Long life hath long Misery.




Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.


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