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Abraham Lincoln | Sadness Quotes
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
George Wither | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.


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