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Sadness Quotes - random


William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.


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