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Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.




Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.


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