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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.


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