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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Sadness Quotes
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!


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