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Sadness Quotes - random


Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.




King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Thomas Henry Huxley | Sadness Quotes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.




Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.


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