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Sadness Quotes - random


Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.




Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.


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