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Sadness Quotes - random


John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.


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