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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Madonna Ciccone | Sadness Quotes
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Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.


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