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Sadness Quotes - random


Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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