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Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."


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