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Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.




Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.


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