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Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.


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