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Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Vittorio Alfieri | Sadness Quotes
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.


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