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Sadness Quotes - random


I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.




Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.


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