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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?




Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.


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