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Avner Strauss | Sadness Quotes
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.




Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.


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