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Sadness Quotes - random


Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.




Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Ahmed Shah Durrani | Sadness Quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.




N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.


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