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Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.


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