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Solomon | Sadness Quotes
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.




Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.


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