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Sadness Quotes - random


Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.




Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.




Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.


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