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Sadness Quotes - random


Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Ed Harcourt | Sadness Quotes
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"




Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.


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