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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.


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