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Sadness Quotes - random


Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.




Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.


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