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Sadness Quotes - random


Herb Caen | Sadness Quotes
Parking is such street sorrow.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.




Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.




Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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