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Sadness Quotes - random


Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
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.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Tony Snow | Sadness Quotes
Play that funky music white girl.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.




Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.


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