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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.




N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.


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