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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.


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