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Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.


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