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Sadness Quotes - random


Wallace Stevens | Sadness Quotes
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...


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