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Sadness Quotes - random


Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Herb Caen | Sadness Quotes
Parking is such street sorrow.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Jonathan Katz | Sadness Quotes
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.




Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.


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