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Sadness Quotes - random


Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.


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