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Sadness Quotes - random


Paulo Coelho | Sadness Quotes
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?




Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.


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