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Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C




Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.




George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.


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