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Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!




John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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