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Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?




Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.


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