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Sadness Quotes - random


Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.




Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.


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