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Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Henry Howard | Sadness Quotes
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.


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