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Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
David Lynch | Sadness Quotes
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.


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