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Sadness Quotes - random


George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.




Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Avner Strauss | Sadness Quotes
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.


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