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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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