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Sadness Quotes - random


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.




Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Richard Hooker | Sadness Quotes
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.


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