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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.




Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.




Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.


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