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William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
James Jones | Sadness Quotes
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.


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