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Sadness Quotes - random


Ben Jonson | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.


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