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Richard Hooker | Sadness Quotes
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.


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