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Sadness Quotes - random


The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.




Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.




Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.


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