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Sadness Quotes - random


John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.


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