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Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.




Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.


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