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Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
D. H. Lawrence | Sadness Quotes
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.


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