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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.




John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.


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