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Sadness Quotes - random


To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.




Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.


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