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Sadness Quotes - random


George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.




John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.


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