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Sadness Quotes - random


Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.




Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Edmund Waller | Sadness Quotes
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!




Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.


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