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Sadness Quotes - random


Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.




Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.




Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.


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