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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!


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