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Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.




Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.


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