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Sadness Quotes - random


Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.


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