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Sadness Quotes - random


Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."




Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.


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