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Sadness Quotes - random


The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.




Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!


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