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I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
James Howell | Sadness Quotes
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.


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