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Sadness Quotes - random


Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Charles Dickens | Sadness Quotes
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.


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