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Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.




Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Kate Bush | Sadness Quotes
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.


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