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Sadness Quotes - random


Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.


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