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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Bertrand Russell | Sadness Quotes
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.


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