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Sadness Quotes - random


John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C




Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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