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Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
David Lynch | Sadness Quotes
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.


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