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Sadness Quotes - random


Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Albert Schweitzer | Sadness Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Gautama Buddha | Sadness Quotes
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.




George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.


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