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Sadness Quotes - random


Gautama Buddha | Sadness Quotes
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.




George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.


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