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Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.


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