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Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.


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