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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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