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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.




Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!


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