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Sadness Quotes - random


Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.


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