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Sadness Quotes - random


William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.




David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.


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