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Sadness Quotes - random


Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.


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