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Sadness Quotes - random


Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139




Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.


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