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Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.




Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
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.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.


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