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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Company in Misery makes it light.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.


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