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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Simon Bolivar | Sadness Quotes
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.


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