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Sadness Quotes - random


Susie Bright | Sadness Quotes
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.




Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.


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