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Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.


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