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Sadness Quotes - random


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.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.


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