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Sadness Quotes - random


George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.




Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.


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