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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
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.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Kate Bush | Sadness Quotes
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?




Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.


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