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Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
P. G. Wodehouse | Sadness Quotes
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.




Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.


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