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Sadness Quotes - random


John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.


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