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Sadness Quotes - random


Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.




Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.




William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.


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