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Sadness Quotes - random


Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.




Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.


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