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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.




Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.




Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.


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