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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.


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