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Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.


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