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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.




Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.


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