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Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
John Ray
Misery loves company.




Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.


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