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Sadness Quotes - random


I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.




Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.


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