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Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.


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