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Sadness Quotes - random


Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.




Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Ed Harcourt | Sadness Quotes
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.


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