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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.


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