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Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!




Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.




Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
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 | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.


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