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Sadness Quotes - random


Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Long life hath long Misery.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.


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