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Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.


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