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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.




Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.


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