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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




John Ray
Misery loves company.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
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.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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