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Sadness Quotes - random


Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?




Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.


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