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Sadness Quotes - random


Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.


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