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William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.


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