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Sadness Quotes - random


William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Jean-Paul Sartre | Sadness Quotes
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.


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