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Sadness Quotes - random


Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.




George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Albert Schweitzer | Sadness Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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