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Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Madonna Ciccone | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.


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