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Sadness Quotes - random


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."




Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.


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