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George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.




Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.


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