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Sadness Quotes - random


I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.




John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.


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