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Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.




Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.


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