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Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...


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