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Sadness Quotes - random


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
James Howell | Sadness Quotes
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.


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