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Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.




Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.


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