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Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.


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