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Sadness Quotes - random


Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.


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