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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.




Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
William Faulkner | Sadness Quotes
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.


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