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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?




King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.




David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.


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