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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.




Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
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.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.




Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...


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