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William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.




Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
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.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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