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Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.




Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Company in Misery makes it light.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.


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