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Sri Yukteswar Giri | Sadness Quotes
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.




Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.




Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.


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