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Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.


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