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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.




Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.


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