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Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.


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