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Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.




Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.


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