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Sadness Quotes - random


Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.




Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."


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