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Sadness Quotes - random


Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.




Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.


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