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Sadness Quotes - random


Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.




Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.




Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.


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