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Sadness Quotes - random


William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.




One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Susie Bright | Sadness Quotes
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.


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