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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136




Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
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.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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