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Sadness Quotes - random


Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.


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