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Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.


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