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Sadness Quotes - random


Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.




Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.




Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Richard Hooker | Sadness Quotes
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.


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