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Sadness Quotes - random


Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.


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