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Sadness Quotes - random


Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."




Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.




Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.


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