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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.


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