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Sadness Quotes - random


Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.




Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.


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