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Sadness Quotes - random


Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.




Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.


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