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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!




Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.




Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.


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