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Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.




P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Solomon | Sadness Quotes
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.


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