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Sadness Quotes - random


Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!




Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.


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