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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.




Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Wesley Willis
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.


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