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Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.




Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.


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