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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Hannah More | Sadness Quotes
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.


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