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Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.




Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Edmund Waller | Sadness Quotes
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.


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