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Sadness Quotes - random


John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.


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