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Sadness Quotes - random


Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.




Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.


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