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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.


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