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Sadness Quotes - random


Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.




Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.




John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.


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