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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?




Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.


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