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Sadness Quotes - random


Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."


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