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Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.




Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.


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