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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Company in Misery makes it light.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.




Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Blaise Pascal
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.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.


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