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Sadness Quotes - random


John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.




Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Michel de Montaigne | Sadness Quotes
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.


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