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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.




Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Men die but sorrow never dies.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.


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