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Sadness Quotes - random


George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.




Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!


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