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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.




Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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