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Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
N. K. Jemisin | Sadness Quotes
There is no logic to grief.




Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."


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