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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.




John Ray
Misery loves company.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.


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