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Sadness Quotes - random


Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Swami Vivekananda | Sadness Quotes
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.


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