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Sadness Quotes - random


Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.


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