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William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.




Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.


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