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Sadness Quotes - random


Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.




Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.




George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.


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