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Sadness Quotes - random


Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.


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