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Sadness Quotes - random


Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.


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