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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.


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