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Sadness Quotes - random


Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Richard Hovey | Sadness Quotes
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.




Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.


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