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Sadness Quotes - random


I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.


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