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Sadness Quotes - random


The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.


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