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Sadness Quotes - random


Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.


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