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Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.




Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Sri Yukteswar Giri | Sadness Quotes
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.


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