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Sadness Quotes - random


Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.


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