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Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Kate Bush | Sadness Quotes
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Erik Satie | Sadness Quotes
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.


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