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Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.


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