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John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.




Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.




Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.


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