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E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.




Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!




Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.


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