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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.




Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.


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