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Sadness Quotes - random


Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.




Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.


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