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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.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...




David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.


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