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Sadness Quotes - random


The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.




Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.




Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.


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