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Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.


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