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William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.


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