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Sadness Quotes - random


The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.




Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?


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