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Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.




Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.




Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.


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