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Sadness Quotes - random


Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Avner Strauss | Sadness Quotes
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.


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