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Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.




Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.




Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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