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Sadness Quotes - random


Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.




Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.


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