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Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.




Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.


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