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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.




Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.


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