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Sadness Quotes - random


Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.




Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Francoise Sagan | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.


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