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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.


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