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Sadness Quotes - random


Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.


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