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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.




Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.


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