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Sadness Quotes - random


They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.


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