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Sadness Quotes - random


Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.


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