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Sadness Quotes - random


Francoise Sagan | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.




Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.


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