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Sadness Quotes - random


Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.




Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.




George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.


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