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Sadness Quotes - random


Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Sadness Quotes
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.




Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.


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