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Sadness Quotes - random


Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.




Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.


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