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Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Charles Dickens | Sadness Quotes
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.


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