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William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.


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