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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.


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