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Sadness Quotes - random


Solomon | Sadness Quotes
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.




Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.


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