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William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.




William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.


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