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Sadness Quotes - random


John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Frida Kahlo | Sadness Quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...


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