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John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.


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