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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...




Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.


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