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Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.




Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.


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