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Sadness Quotes - random


George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."




Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Swami Vivekananda | Sadness Quotes
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.


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