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Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.


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