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Sadness Quotes - random


Madonna Ciccone | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Edmund Waller | Sadness Quotes
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!




Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.


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