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Sadness Quotes - random


Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.


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