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Sadness Quotes - random


Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Swami Vivekananda | Sadness Quotes
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.


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