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Sadness Quotes - random


John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.


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