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Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
James Thomson | Sadness Quotes
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.


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