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Sadness Quotes - random


Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.




George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
And mighty poets in their misery dead.




Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.


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