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Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.




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.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.




Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Wesley Willis
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.


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