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Sadness Quotes - random


Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.


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