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Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Eugene Ionesco | Sadness Quotes
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.


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