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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.


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