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Sadness Quotes - random


John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.




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.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Madame Swetchine | Sadness Quotes
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.


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