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Sadness Quotes - random


A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?


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