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Sadness Quotes - random


Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.


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