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Sadness Quotes - random


James Thomson | Sadness Quotes
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.


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