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Sadness Quotes - random


George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.


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