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Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
William Congreve | Sadness Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!


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