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Sadness Quotes - random


Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.


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