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Sadness Quotes - random


Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.




Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.


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