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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.




Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.


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