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Sadness Quotes - random


William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.




Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.




Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.


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