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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.




Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.


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