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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.




Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
N. K. Jemisin | Sadness Quotes
There is no logic to grief.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.


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