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Sadness Quotes - random


William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.




Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Kate Bush | Sadness Quotes
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.




John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.


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