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Sadness Quotes - random


William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.




King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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.


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