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Sadness Quotes - random


George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.




Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.


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