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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




John Ray
Misery loves company.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.


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