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Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.


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