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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.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.




Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Sarada Devi | Sadness Quotes
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Ben Jonson | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.


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