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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.


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