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William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Emo Philips | Sadness Quotes
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
William Congreve | Sadness Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.


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