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Sadness Quotes - random


Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.




John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?


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