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Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Paulo Coelho | Sadness Quotes
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.




Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.


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