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Sadness Quotes - random


James Thomson | Sadness Quotes
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.


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