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Sadness Quotes - page 6


Samuel Beckett | Sadness Quotes
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.




Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.




Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.


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