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Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.


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