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Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.




William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Samuel Beckett | Sadness Quotes
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.


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