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Sadness Quotes - random


Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.




Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.


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