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John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Sri Yukteswar Giri | Sadness Quotes
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.




Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.


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