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Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.


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