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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.


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