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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.




Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.




Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
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.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.


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