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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.




Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.


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