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William Congreve | Sadness Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Tori Amos | Sadness Quotes
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Richard Hooker | Sadness Quotes
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.


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