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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Subhash Kak | Sadness Quotes
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.


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