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Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."




E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Vittorio Alfieri | Sadness Quotes
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.


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