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Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.


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