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Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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