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Sadness Quotes - random


Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Swami Vivekananda | Sadness Quotes
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.


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