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Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Simon Bolivar | Sadness Quotes
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Sarada Devi | Sadness Quotes
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.


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