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Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Tori Amos | Sadness Quotes
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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