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Sadness Quotes - random


Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




George Herbert
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.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
N. K. Jemisin | Sadness Quotes
There is no logic to grief.




Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.


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