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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.




Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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