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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.




Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
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.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.


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