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Sadness Quotes - random


Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Susie Bright | Sadness Quotes
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.


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