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Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.




Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.


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