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Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.




Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!




Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.


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