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Sadness Quotes - random


Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Albert Schweitzer | Sadness Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.


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