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Sadness Quotes - random


Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.




Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.


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