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Sadness Quotes - random


Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.




Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.


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