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Sadness Quotes - random


It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.




John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.


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