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Sadness Quotes - random


Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Publilius Syrus | Sadness Quotes
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.


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