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Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.




William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Charles Dickens | Sadness Quotes
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.


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