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Sadness Quotes - random


Henry Miller | Sadness Quotes
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.




Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?


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