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Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.




Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.


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