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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Madonna Ciccone | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."




David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.


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