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Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Publilius Syrus | Sadness Quotes
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Madonna | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."




P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.


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