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Sadness Quotes - random


Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.




D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.


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