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Sadness Quotes - random


Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.




George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
N. K. Jemisin | Sadness Quotes
There is no logic to grief.




Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.


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