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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.




A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.




Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.


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