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George Wither | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Richard Hooker | Sadness Quotes
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
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.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.


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