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Sadness Quotes - random


One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.


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