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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!


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