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Sadness Quotes - random


Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.




Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Herb Caen | Sadness Quotes
Parking is such street sorrow.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.




Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.


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