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Sadness Quotes - random


Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.




Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.


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