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Sadness Quotes - random


The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick




Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...


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