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Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.


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