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Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!




Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.


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