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Sadness Quotes - random


Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.


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