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Emo Philips | Sadness Quotes
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
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.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.


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