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Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.




Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.


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