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Sadness Quotes - random


George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.




Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
John Ray
Misery loves company.


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