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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.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...




Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.


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