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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.




Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.




Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Addison Mizner | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.


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