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Sadness Quotes - random


William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.




Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.


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