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Sadness Quotes - random


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.


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